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Subject:	Re: what are you running djgpp on?
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Date:	Tue, 23 Mar 2004 15:20:22 GMT
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gswork wrote:
> CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
>> gswork wrote:
>>>
>>> Just a question out of interest - what spec pc are you running
>>> DJGPP on?
> 
>>> no big point here, just a nod of appreciation to the scalable and
>>> useful DJGPP package, and wondering if anyone has it on an even more
>>> modest machine - and what you've been writing with it recently.
>>
>> A '486-DX2-80 running W98 with 64 MB.
> 
> That particular 486 is considered quite a rare CPU IIRC.  I haven't
> encountered a 486 with so much RAM either.
> 
> The RAM must make W98 tolerable, but i admit i'd not generally
> consider having 9x on anything less than a pentium - not so much for
> the OS, which can go along ok, but for the 32 bit Windows apps.

When I got it I determined to spend nothing on it that wouldn't
port to a new machine.  Thus disk drives, Laser printer, monitor
are OK.  I made an exception for the memory, which used to be 16
MB.  It is quite satisfactory for 90% of what I do and doesn't
heat the house.

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