OT: OT: OT: Re: Gateway 2000 Handbook 486 question

From: Doc Shipley <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Tue Feb 18 13:13:00 2003

On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 vance_at_neurotica.com wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Chad Fernandez wrote:
>
> > I did try Win 3.1 on my old 286-12, with about 1-1.5 megs of memory.
> > It was so slow, it took it a few minutes to finish crashing :-)
>
> I don't know what you were doing wrong. I did quite a bit of useful work
> on Windows 3.11 running on a 286-8 with 1MB RAM. Ran just fine.

  ISTR that Win3.11 had a switch to run either in "Real" or "Standard"
mode. I may have the terms wrong, but one was for low power machines.

        Doc
Received on Tue Feb 18 2003 - 13:13:00 GMT