15 Apr
1999
15 Apr
'99
2:55 p.m.
In a message dated 99-04-15 19:12:43 EDT, you write:
The Emperor's New Clothes in the information age
:)
How long does it take to install win95 on a 386? Longer than on a pentium,
I'll bet, especially since you may have to sit there and swap floppies.
I have no problem running Windows 3.1, I like it a lot more in some ways.
It's a very nice program, now that I've seen the alternative :)
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Power
there's nothing wrong with a 386 running win3.1 i think the min requirements
for windont95 is 386dx-40 and 8meg.
i setup a ps2 model 57sx for a person that normally couldnt afford one and
put plenty of old software like msworks and publisher and some dos games as
well as an external 14.4 modem. a local isp will help her set it up for net
access and she's happy as a clam. it is slow, but certainly better than
nothing. heck, even doom 2 will run on a 386 if you run it in a small window!
15 Apr
15 Apr
5:06 p.m.
New subject: MINIMUM Requirements (Was: OT: Re: Time to declare
there's nothing wrong with a 386 running win3.1 i
think the min requirements
for windont95 is 386dx-40 and 8meg.
[this has little to do with what's "REASONABLE"]
SX will work.
-40? Speed doesn't matter at all, other than trying to be "REASONABLE"
billg said that 95 would work with 4M, but I was never able to run
anything but "safe mode" (I have an NEC VERSA 486 that rejects memory
expansion)
OTOH, with 3.1, a 6MHz IBM AT (286) works nicely for printing invoices,
etc.
I always find it very annoying when documentation writers don't understand
the difference between "minimum required" and "minimum recommended".
For
95, I would generally not recommend less than 20M with at least 75MHz
Pentium. And preferably more and faster.
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