OT: Was: Re: LINUX on Windows 98

[Rashkae]

Mark Haney wrote:
> Jimmy Montague wrote:
>> As I recall, Karl, Win 95 will run in 8 megs of RAM -- but you won't
>> like it. I had it in a 16 mb, DX-2/66 and it was reasonably fast, but my
>> girlfriend installed it in 8 mb and it was nightmarishly slow.
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>> Jimmy
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> Win95 did run in 8MB RAM.  I first ran 95 on a system with only 8.  I 
> very quickly (and expensively -- an 8MB SIMM was $60) upgraded to that. 
>   Wasn't great, but better than nothing at the time.
> 
> 

Win95 first edition worked beautifully in 4mb of ram.   As long as you
had at least a 486 and 4mb, Win95 was actually faster and multi-tasked
much more smoothly than Win 3.11 on the same workload... (Wow, OS
upgrades that improved performance, those were really the golden days)

'Course, it didn't take long for all the third party drivers and add-on
utilities to start sucking all that extra available memory space into a
black hole that keeps getting bigger to this day.