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- From: matthias@nsr.hp.com (Matthias Kamm)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Will Windows crawl on my system?
- Date: 17 Dec 1992 22:08:58 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett Packard Santa Clara Site
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- Chris D. Jennings (cdj@iti.org) wrote:
- :
- : Please excuse me if this is a FAQ - I'm new to this group.
- :
- : I'm considering Windows 3.1 so that my home machine will be more
- : compatible with the machine my wife uses at her office.
- :
-
- Go for it. What a machine lacks in raw processing power you can
- make up with RAM and permanent swap space.
-
- 4Mbs of RAM is a minumum, 8 would be better. That way you can set
- up a large hard disk cache, and a RAM disk for your /TEMP directory.
- Since you'll probably be running in 386 enhanced mode, you can speed
- things up with a permanent swap file on your hard disk. If you
- don't need the virtual memory options in enhanced mode, run in
- standard mode; it's faster.
-
- Believe it or not, I was perfectly happy running Excel and WinWord
- with Windows 3.0 on my old 286 machine with lots of RAM. The main
- time killer was switching back and forth between DOS and windows
- (286 "brain dead" processor feature). You'll have no such problems.
- Have fun :-)
-
- MK
-