At 3/31/2001 04:28 PM, you wrote:
> > If 128M is indeed the recommendation, it's not just for
> > the OS, it's a recommended amount - and nothing more.
> > It may be there just to sell memory.
>
>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.
Exactly. I installed Win95 on a 486DX2/66 with 12MB of RAM once. It
wasn't pretty. It was a long time ago, but I believe that it took more
than 10 minutes to boot up.
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Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss_at_ou.edu
Received on Sat Mar 31 2001 - 16:59:50 BST