Minimum hardware requirements (Was: Old, but not "Classic"

From: Les Berry <lfb107_at_psu.edu>
Date: Sat Nov 14 21:38:47 1998

>>NB: MINIMUM requirements are NOT to be confused with RECOMMENDED
>>configuration. Particularly when it gets to issues of "acceptable
>>performance".
>
>This is the major impediment. Like the 386SX running 95. It worked, but it
>was
>such a slug that we put 3.11 back on it after 2 days of tinkering. That
>improved it's
>performance significantly. I have seen a 386DX40 running Win95. It was a
>little slow,
>but still useable.
>
>Cheers
>
>Geoff
>Computer Room Internet Cafe

That's odd. I had an SX-33 386 that (not counting bootup) actually ran things
a bit faster under 95 than it did under 3.11
(This with 4megs ram and an 80mb harddisk)

Les
Received on Sat Nov 14 1998 - 21:38:47 GMT