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From: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Memory requirements (Win 3.0)
Keywords: RAM, memory
Message-ID: <1990Aug22.205542.8502@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 22 Aug 90 20:55:42 GMT
References: <1990Aug15.044352.25786@athena.mit.edu>
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In article <1990Aug15.044352.25786@athena.mit.edu> tarquin@athena.mit.edu (Robert P Poole) writes:
>In a preliminary review of Windows 3.0 that I read, it was indicated that
>Windows could run in a "limited" mode, which only required 640K.  Then, when I
>actually saw the boxed set, the label said "Requires at least 1 Meg RAM."
>Finally, I saw an ad in CompuAdd's catalog that said Windows required 2 Meg.
>Now, who's telling the whoppers here?

Windows can run on a 640K machine, though it will run in real mode since you
won't be able to load himem.sys on a 640K machine.  If you want to run in
Standard mode, you need at least 1Meg of memory.  The more memory you get
for your PC, the more you'll have in Windows when you run in Standard mode.

There is another mode for 386's that might require 2Meg to work correctly.
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