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From: icking@gmdzi.gmd.de (Werner Icking)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Windows 3.0 on a 12MHz 286 w/1 meg...?
Message-ID: <4688@gmdzi.gmd.de>
Date: 8 May 91 20:56:13 GMT
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Organization: GMD, St. Augustin, F.R. Germany
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banko@moskva.ks.uiuc.edu (Brad Banko) writes:

>I have thinking about buying a 12 MHz 286 system with 1 meg ram, and I am
>curious if Windows 3.0 runs in any real sense on such a system?
>The Windows 3.0 box says it does, but how well does it run?

>Please reply directly to me.  Thanks.
My reply bounced (KGB?) - nevertheless here is my  followup:

I have run it on a 8 MHz 286 and it worked well; but I had 3.5 meg RAM and
I think at least 2 megs are neccessary to make it run well. Switching
between DOS-boxes is slow; but most people forget that it is not the main
task for windows to switch DOS-boxes. If the main task is running windows
programmes it works better than I expected it.
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