Windows 2000 Flavors

At the moment of this writing several flavors of the Windows 2000 operating system (OS) were available. They all are listed below with a brief description and system requirements where available.

Windows 2000 Professional

This operating system is designed for desktops and notebooks, supports up to 4 GB of memory, and scales to 2 processors. It is an operating system for office and mobile professionals. It may be considered as a combined evolutionary product of Windows 9x and Windows NT enhanced with new features. It is a client workstation OS. System requirements:

Windows 2000 Server

Server-side OS supporting up to 4 GB of RAM. Scales to 4 processors. System requirements:

Windows 2000 Advanced Server

Server-side OS supporting up to 8 GB of RAM. Scales to 8 processors. This OS may be used in a 2-node cluster to provide better service availability as well as in a 32-node network load balancing. System requirements:

Windows 2000 Datacenter Server

Server-side OS supporting up to 64 GB of RAM. Scales to 32 processors. May be used in a 4-node cluster as well as in a 32-node network load balancing.
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