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

From: Feldman, Robert <Robert_Feldman_at_jdedwards.com>
Date: Tue Feb 18 13:48:00 2003

That was Win 3.0, which was the last that could run on an 8088/8086/80186.
It had Real (Win /R), Standard (Win /2 or Win /S), and 386 Enhanced (Win
/3). Win 3.1 is restricted to the two Protected modes (Standard or 386
Enhanced).

-----Original Message-----
From: Doc Shipley [mailto:doc_at_mdrconsult.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 1:10 PM
To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: OT: OT: OT: Re: Gateway 2000 Handbook 486 question


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
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