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From: Elliott Oti <oti AT phys DOT uu DOT nl>
Subject: Re: Q: minimum hardware for DJGPP?
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On 27 Aug 1998, Nhan Huynh wrote:

> I would like to know what is the minimum hardware
> for running djgpp.  Would it run on a 286?  386?

A 386 SX with 1 Mb of memory or more, and enough hard disk space to
contain the neccessary files, is the bare minimum. 

I have compiled Allegro 3.0 on a 386 DX-33 with 4 Mb of memory and about
30 Mb free (compressed) disk space. It took roughly 20 hours, and I had to
compile three files "manually", because gcc couldn't compile them on that
machine with optimizations on. (The color-blend files, FWIW).

On a 486 DX4-100 with 16Mb memory and ~300 Mb free disk space compiling
Allegro takes ~ 20 minutes.

On a PII-200 with 32Mb/1Gb it takes ~5 minutes. 

  Elliott Oti
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  "Q: What did the elephant say to the naked man?
   A: It's cute but can you pick up peanuts with it?"