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- Subject: Re: I will NEVER buy Windows 95 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-(
- Date: 30 Jan 1996 15:40:09 GMT
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- In <4eir23$kbd@hp01.redwood.nl>, rob@redwood.nl (Rob J. Nauta) writes:
- >Asgeir Aegisson <asgeir@simi.is> writes:
- >
- >>Jeff Pitsch wrote:
- >>> That 32 MB Minimum is a bunch of crap. I started running Win95 on
- >>>Sure Win 95 works ok with 16 MB RAM on a 486.
- >
- >>I have a 486/66, 16MB PC at home and I'm quite content ...BUT I would
- >>not use anything less than Pentium 100MHz 32 MB at work - otherwise I
- >>would be spending too much time of my life staring at the terminal -
- >>waiting for something to happen.
- >
- >Instead of just waiting you can also run some other apps. Don't forget
- >Windows 95 multitasks too. I found it quite adequate. Of course, I run
- >all my internet stuff under Linux. It'll be a cold day in hell before I
- >swap my elm, netscape/linux, ircII, etc for Exchange, Explorer and mIrc.
- >
- Sorry but Win 95 task switches true multitasking requires more than 1 CPU
- and there ain't an SMP version of Schwin 95.
-
- I also use Linux
-