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- From: deb@spectra.eng.hawaii.edu (David Barrett)
- Subject: Re: Windows with 2M RAM
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.043309.19765@news.Hawaii.Edu>
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- Organization: University of Hawaii, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
- References: <1992Nov9.185519.18959@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 04:33:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov9.185519.18959@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> lari@robotics.berkeley.edu 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?
- >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?
- >
- Word doesn't need windows to run. Word for Windows takes a lot of memory and
- probably will not respond too well with that little ram. Windows 3.0 barely
- takes 1M of RAM and 2M is on the edge. If there is no extended memory Windows
- 3.1 will not setup without it and a xm diver. Just to use a word processor is
- not worth the struggle to install unless you up the capacity. A slow windows
- is evenually a real pain.
-
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