Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bwdls58!mlord
From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Recommended amount of memory ?
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Date: 28 Feb 91 16:10:01 GMT
References: <1991Feb23.205129.24261@csn.org>
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In article <1991Feb23.205129.24261@csn.org> haverlan@tramp.colorado.edu (HAVERLAND MARC BRADLEY) writes:
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<For a 386sx machine, what amount of memory is recommended?  The machine
<will be used mostly for Word for Windows, and desktop publishing work.

Well, a general answer for a general question.
This is, of course, very highly subjective..

I have 6MB in my 386sx for running windows with medium duty applications.
You *can* run windows with only 1 meg of ram.  
You *can* run it in enhanced mode with only 2 meg of ram.

But you will greatly appreciate the increased speed of a disk cache
(one of SMARTDRV (ugh), SUPERPCK, or HYPERDSK) and less application swapping.

Go for at least 4 meg of RAM.  I have 6 Meg.  I want 8 Meg.
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