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

From: jpero_at_sympatico.ca <(jpero_at_sympatico.ca)>
Date: Tue Feb 18 21:13:00 2003

> From: Chad Fernandez <fernande_at_internet1.net>
> To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: OT: OT: OT: Re: Gateway 2000 Handbook 486 question
> Reply-to: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 23:58:54 -0500

> Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
> > Win95 WILL run on a 12MHz 386SX. But it needs more than 4M RAM if you
> > want to leave "safe mode". Some others have been successful with only 4M,
> > but our experience was that it would only do safe mode until we added more
> > RAM.
>
> I see. I never tried it on my sisters 386sx-25, since I thought the DX
> was a requirement.
>
> 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 :-)
>
> Chad Fernandez
> Michigan, USA

I had run 95 (original) on 386dx 25 16MB w/ 256K cache and decent HD.
 Still acts like cold honey spreading slowly. Thinks through things
sluggardly.

Cheers,

Wizard
Received on Tue Feb 18 2003 - 21:13:00 GMT