Message-Id: <3.0.16.19901025174138.08a76a6e@tellus.swip.net> X-Sender: mt58779 AT tellus DOT swip DOT net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 Demo (16) To: opendos AT delorie DOT com From: Bernie Subject: Re: About Micro$quash DOS 7 (hiding in Win98). Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 18:03:17 +0200 Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Patrick wrote: >> What are the minumum requirements for w98? I have considered doing a >> minimal install of 95 or 98 on my 486DX2-66, it has 40megs of ram. I >> ,of course, would like to up that :-) I haven't done it, becasue I >> haven't wanted to abandon WFWGs, and I don't know how well it will >> run on a 486. > >That system would probably be very limited as to what you can do with 98. I would suggest 95 since this is faster. I set up a system (486DX2-66 and 28MB RAM) that worked fine (Netscape 4.6x and Office 2000) this summer. >anyone running WINDOZE 95 and who does not want to upgrade to 98 or ME or >2000, should not even bother with AGP and USB. These are a pain in the b*tt >for installing 95. AGP worked like a charm for me. Same goes for my friends that run win95. >The slowest I would recommend at this time is a 90MHz Pentium class system. Yeah, I would set that as some sort of minimum as well (90-120), fast 486's with plenty of RAM can be usable - but it may not be so easy to set these up to be fast enough for most people. >The Pro is also a screamer for >DOS. CAUTION! There are some DOS programs do not work well on Pentium Pros (such as the Pentium Pro, II and III). >Also a trick on how to use the WINDOZE 3.x Swapfile for >both Linux and WINDOZE 3.x and how to make a Linux swap partition and use it >in both WINDOZE 3.x and Linux. I recently debated this on another list. In my experience (with NT 4, 9x and 3.x) the computer will be faster and more stable without a swap even if you have much less memory than "required" and run several programs at once.