Fwd: compaq's portable computer

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Tue May 4 18:49:25 2004

> > 3.1 requires extended memory (286)
On Tue, 4 May 2004 RMaxwell_at_atlantissi.com wrote:
> IIRC, you DON'T need extended memory to run Win3.1 in "Standard" mode,
> just "386 Enhanced" mode. Of course, "Standard" couldn't switch tasks
> or do much of what people expect of Windoze now (except crash). I recall
> the day I came back from the Rochester (NY) Hamfest with a $5 RAM board
> that gave me a whole 1MB on top of my 640K and the chance to turn on the
> Enhanced functions...

Windoze 3.1 will refuse to install unless there is SOME memory above 1M.
It therefore can not be installed on an 8088 machine.

Preliminary tests in August 1991 on the Beta version confirmed that it
in addition to refusing to install unless there was SOME memory above 1M,
it would not run if that memory were removed.
It WOULD work on an AT that had less than 640K of main memory, but had
some extended (512K main, 128K extended) There is a possibility that it
might work with as little as 16K of extended, but it REFUSES to install
without SOMETHING up there.
Received on Tue May 04 2004 - 18:49:25 BST