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From: bchen@argon.berkeley.edu (Benjamin Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Windows 3.0 on a 12MHz 286 w/1 meg...?
Message-ID: <1991May8.002158.29892@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 8 May 91 00:21:58 GMT
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Reply-To: bchen@argon.berkeley.edu (Benjamin Chen)
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I have a ~5 year old  12MHz DTK 286.  I used to run Windows with 1 meg.  It's
tolerable for the applications that came with windows if you don't run
that many.  It was SLOW for MS Word.  I recently upgraded to 2 megs
and am a much happier user.

I guess what it boils down to is what kind of software you'll run and how
many applications you think you might want to run.  Stuff like having
pretty bitmapped images as backgrounds are definitely out for a 1 meg
machine. 

Perhaps you should wait until 386 machines come down in price further.
I've been told they should drop another 50% by the end of summer.
If not, you should get at least 2 megs for the 286.

	BC


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Benjamin Chen  
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