2 Apr
2001
2 Apr
'01
6:55 a.m.
On Apr 2, 7:36, Bryan Pope wrote:
hard
>
> 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.
I can confirm that it will boot... I did tech support for this person
who had just such a beast. It took about 10 minutes to boot. The poor drive just kept grinding away the whole time. And
this machine was used
to
take care of their accounting.
I can second that -- I recently gave a friend a little compaq portable (I'd
hestitate to call it a laptop!) which is a 386sx16. i tohught it had 2MB
of RAM, but maybe it was 4MB -- anyway, it does boot, but it takes longer
than 10 minutes. It takes even longer than that to boot linux!
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York