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- From: jbs@Congruent.COM (Jeffrey Siegal)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: Re: minimum requirements for NT
- Message-ID: <JBS.92Sep1140959@sun1.Congruent.COM>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 18:09:59 GMT
- References: <sntywc-@rpi.edu> <1992Aug31.063251.20363@csc.canberra.edu.au>
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- In-reply-to: act@softserver.canberra.edu.au's message of 31 Aug 92 06:32:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug31.063251.20363@csc.canberra.edu.au> act@softserver.canberra.edu.au (Cyclops) writes:
-
- No you can do it in 8 megs, BUT you cannot run the graphics install as it
- slaps your wrists and say that you have to have 12meg and aborts. The
- dos2nt.bat doesn't check. In 8 megs it probably runs a bit slow, but it
- goes.
-
- I tried to use NT with 8MB. In addition to it being *very* slow, I
- also had many unexplained failures, hangs, crashes--especially when
- trying to use the development tools. All the problems went away when
- I went to 12MB. Microsoft claims that the final release will run in
- 8MB, but the current release requires 12MB.
-
- Jeffrey Siegal
-