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!
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Mon Apr 02 2001 - 13:55:10 BST