AZ> On 2013-04-28 8:17 PM, BOB KLAHN -> TOM WALKER wrote:   
      
      
    BK>>   Minimum ram for Win 98 is measured in tens of megabytes, not   
    BK>>   hundreds or gigs. I have two old 486DX100s with 16 mb running   
    BK>>   Win 98. I have an old Pentium no number with not much more   
    BK>>   running Win 98.   
      
    AZ> In 1998 when I was setting up a new computer lab in a   
    AZ> school, we bought Pentium II systems, 266 MHz - they came   
    AZ> with 32MB, which we upgraded to a massive 64 MB.   
      
    AZ> Pentiums or higher-end 486s work fine as Bob pointed out. I   
    AZ> believe the minimum RAM for Win95 may have been 8 MB,   
    AZ> though 16 MB worked better.   
      
    I believe that is right. I had a 486 SX 20 W/8mb, and it met the   
    minimum specs. OTOH, I kept it on DOS cause I didn't see any   
    reason to go to windows back then. Used it until it gave up the   
    ghost.   
      
    Even used it at work for programming the machines. It worked   
    better than the Windows machines for that.   
      
      
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
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