OT: OT: OT: Re: Gateway 2000 Handbook 486 question - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

18 Feb 2003

That was Win 3.0, which was the last that could run on an 8088/8086/80186.
It had Real (Win /R), Standard (Win /2 or Win /S), and 386 Enhanced (Win
/3). Win 3.1 is restricted to the two Protected modes (Standard or 386
Enhanced).

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From: Doc Shipley [mailto:doc@mdrconsult.com]
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Subject: Re: OT: OT: OT: Re: Gateway 2000 Handbook 486 question

On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 vance(a)neurotica.com wrote:

...
  On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Chad Fernandez wrote:

  I did try Win 3.1 on my old 286-12, with about
1-1.5 megs of memory.
 It was so slow, it took it a few minutes to finish crashing :-) 
 I don't know what you were doing wrong.  I did quite a bit of useful work
 on Windows 3.11 running on a 286-8 with 1MB RAM.  Ran just fine. 
  ISTR that Win3.11 had a switch to run either in "Real" or
"Standard"
mode.  I may have the terms wrong, but one was for low power machines.

	Doc