i don't no but i bet shane moody knows ;)
The processor has nothing to do with how large a hard drive is supported. Most Pentium III-era motherboards / BIOSes support up to 137 GB hard drives. You have thus likely not installed the drive correctly.
No, you cannot.
Yes.
No. The USB 1.1 found on a Pentium III system is far slower than the memory or IDE bus. You would be better served by upgrading your RAM.
Pentium III was created in 1999.
In some cases, yes. If the BIOS of the motherboard has the proper microcode updates to control the processor, and the FSB (front side bus) is at a high enough rate, you can install a Pentium III processor on the older board.
Yes. The minimum requirements for Windows XP are a 233 Mhz Pentium, 64 MB of RAM, and 1.5 GB of hard drive space. Any Pentium III computer should have more than enough RAM and hard drive space.
There is no "Pentium R" processor. Knowing this, the biggest difference is that the Pentium III exists and the other does not.
The L1 cache in the Pentium III is SRAM.
The Intel Pentium III was released on February 26, 1999.
System configuration is determined more by the motherboard, not the processor. A 450 MHz Pentium III was only available in a Slot 1 package, and operated on a 100 MHz FSB. All other specifications of a system (chipset, memory, sound, hard drive, etc...) are dictated by other factors.
Whatever you have. Linux can be run on a wide range of specifications. Some distros, like Damn Small Linux, only require a 486 with 16 MB of RAM, and 50 MB of hard drive space, something you could have had in 1994. Typical requirements are 256 to 5.12 MB of RAM, a Pentium III or better processor, and 2 to 6 GBs of hard drive space