You're in trouble. The Pentium III runs virtualization software very slowly. VMware will run, but slow. Go download from vmware.com and see for yourself.
If you could please reword what you want so that we can better undertand the problem we can better help you. Are you trying to rsh into a windows xp box? or rsh from WinXP to a Linux box?
If you need a Red Hat system, use Fedora (I recommend Fedora 8). Red Hat 9 is too old to have the needed drivers, and may be too old to properly function with a newer kernel. The Fedora Project,...