Old, but not "Classic"

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_ncal.verio.com>
Date: Thu Nov 12 13:32:50 1998

On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Russ Blakeman wrote:

> Unless you're talking about Win98, 95 or Workgroups, a 286 with 1 mb of
> ram can and does run Windows 3.11 very well. I have 2 machines here in
> the 286 class that run Netscape (older version) under Windows 3.11 and
> have 4 mb of ram on a fair sized hard disk (120mb). They're also PS/2's
> to boot.

Hey, you're right. Maybe you ought to hold a seminar on how to make 286's
useful so these centers can get some use out of it.

That's the story I got from one recycler. And it seems to be the rule
with all the recyclers I know of.

Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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