31 Mar
2001
31 Mar
'01
8:59 a.m.
At 3/31/2001 04:28 PM, you wrote:
Exactly. I installed Win95 on a 486DX2/66 with 12MB of RAM once. It
wasn't pretty. It was a long time ago, but I believe that it took more
than 10 minutes to boot up.
--
Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss(a)ou.edu
If 128M is
indeed the recommendation, it's not just for
the OS, it's a recommended amount - and nothing more.
It may be there just to sell memory.
The thing is, Microsoft's memory recommendations tend to be the minimum
the OS will function correctly. Remember the minimum requirements for
win95 were a 386sx16 and 4 megs of ram. I'm told it will *boot* in that,
if you're patient. But do useful work? Ha.