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

From: TeoZ <teoz_at_neo.rr.com>
Date: Tue Feb 18 21:26:00 2003

There is a big difference between getting an OS to load and doing anything
usefull on the system you managed to barely load it on.


----- Original Message -----
From: <jpero_at_sympatico.ca>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: OT: OT: OT: Re: Gateway 2000 Handbook 486 question


> > 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 - 21:26:00 GMT

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