MINIMUM Requirements (Was: OT: Re: Time to declare

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Thu Apr 15 21:06:28 1999

> 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.
Received on Thu Apr 15 1999 - 21:06:28 BST