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xhrpost an hour ago

Did not realize that Win95 can technically run on a 20Mhz 386DX.

st_goliath 6 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> Win95 can technically run on a 20Mhz 386DX

s/technically/allegedly/

with a minimum of 4M RAM [1]. I have a machine with twice that clock and the twice that RAM that a friends parents wanted to toss out[2]. I spent the better part of a day getting Windows 3.11 and Office 4.3 to run. Playing around with it for a bit, I highly doubt that Windows 95 would be anything but endlessly frustrating on such a machine. I was not masochistic enough to try.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_95#System_requirements

[2] https://goliath32.com/hw/machines.html#pc386

badsectoracula 15 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It "technically" can - i used Win95 on an AMD 386DX with 4MB of RAM back in the 90s for a little. Most of the time was spent waiting for the computer to do something while the HDD was constantly working.

The Pentium MMX with 32MB i replaced it with was MUCH faster, practically everything was instant.

weinzierl an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Good question. I ran Slackware Linux and DOS 5.0 on mine. I think Win95 was my Pentium 100 MHz already so it sounds a bit sus, but the FAQ section of OP had items about Win95, that is where I got the idea from.