22 Dec
2022
22 Dec
'22
10:41 p.m.
On Thu, 22 Dec 2022, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
You've apparently never heard of Tony Duell: last
I read he was running
Windows 98 on an IBM PC/XT or something like that :)
Tony,
are you around?
My experience was that Windoze 3.00 was the last that could be installed
on an 8088.
Win 3.10 and above demanded at least a few K of RAM above the 1MB
boundary. (Himem.sys, A20) You could easily get away (3.10, 3.11) with
512K plus 64K addressed with A20.
There MIGHT be some clever tricks to fool the SETUP program, which also
installed SMARTDRV.
Win95/Win98 would be happy with a PC/AT 286, with appropriate RAM
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