Apple LWPro parallel port? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

2 Apr 2001

On Apr 2,  7:36, Bryan Pope wrote:
...
  >
 > 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 hard
...
  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!

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