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- From: yfwu@Uz.nthu.edu.tw (EE U780935)
- Subject: Re: Windows with 2M RAM
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.094506.5841%yfwu@Uz.nthu.edu.tw>
- Organization: National Tsing Hua University (HsinChu)
- References: <1992Nov9.185519.18959@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 09:45:06 GMT
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- lari@saadi.berkeley.edu (Francesco Lari) writes:
- > I got a friend with a 386-SX/33MHz and 2M of RAM, 80M HD.
- > Is it possible to run Windows with this configuration?
- Yes! You can run Windows in 386 Enhanced Mode in this configuration.
-
- > I understand it is going to be pretty slow, but she is just going to use
- > simple word processing programs like Word. Do you think she will be
- > able to run it?
- *Simple* word processing like WORD ????? Word is *not* a simple word processing
- If you run Word in this configuration, the display speed will be very very very
- very very very very slow. (7 verys = 7 seconds per character display speed)
-
- So if you want to run Word, upgrade your memory to 8MB or more, upgrade your
- PC to 486DX33 or 486DX2-33 or more.........
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- e-mail: yfwu@uz.nthu.edu.tw Dept. of Electric Engineering
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