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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!rutgers!vpbuild!admin1!vpmeu015!jessea
  2. From: jessea@vpmeu015.me.vp.com (Jesse W. Asher)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
  4. Subject: Re: NT requirements
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov22.184835.10041@vpbuild.vp.com>
  6. Date: 22 Nov 92 18:48:35 GMT
  7. References: <zpt18x_@rpi.edu> <1992Nov17.181837.10024@news.mentorg.com>
  8. Sender: @vpbuild.vp.com
  9. Organization: Varco-Pruden Buildings
  10. Lines: 23
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  12. In article <1992Nov17.181837.10024@news.mentorg.com>, davidr@davidr.mentorg.com (David Ransier) wrote the following:
  13. >In article <zpt18x_@rpi.edu>, kimp@rpi.edu (Phil Kim) writes:
  14. >|> In article <1e4jcsINN9d9@sam.ksu.ksu.edu> sdoran@sam.ksu.ksu.edu (Steven Marcotte) writes:
  15. >|> >  I know this is probably a FAQ, but what the hey.  What are the 
  16. >|> >minimum requirements for NT?  Right now, I have the following
  17. >|> >
  18. >|> >    486/50
  19. >|> >    4 meg Ram
  20. >|> >    120 meg HD
  21. >|> >    SVGA
  22. >|> 
  23. >|> I think the "release" version will require 8MB RAM.  For the "beta"
  24. >|> version, it requires about 12MB RAM.
  25.  
  26. I installed NT on a box with 4MB of RAM and although it installed fine,
  27. it is impossible to run with this as it constantly pages.  It's
  28. completely worthless with 4MB.
  29.  
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  31.       Jesse W. Asher                                          (901)762-6000
  32.                              Varco-Pruden Buildings
  33.                  6000 Poplar Ave., Suite 400, Memphis, TN  38119
  34.     Internet: jessea@vpbuild.vp.com                   UUCP: vpbuild!jessea
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