23 Dec
2022
23 Dec
'22
2:50 a.m.
Seems a bit impossible to me as well but Fred has made computers do things
that would make ordinary men involuntarily lose their bladder so I look
forward to the story/explanation.
Sellam
On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 6:46 PM Glen Slick via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On Thu, Dec 22, 2022, 6:16 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
wrote:
> >> Win95/Win98 would be happy with a PC/AT 286, with appropriate RAM
> On Thu, 22 Dec 2022, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
> > I don't think "happy" is how I would describe that.
> > Would it run? Maybe.
> > Would I want to run it like that? Nope. Not at all.
> I stand corrected.
> "Run", no.
> "limp along", yes
> It could do a few useful things; but was far from suitable for general
> purpose.
Shirley none of you are serious about a 32-bit (at least partially)
operating system being able to execute on a 286 processor.
You couldn't even run Windows 3.1 in Enhanced mode on a 286 processor.