Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!rex!ames!dftsrv!oneel From: oneel@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov ( Bruce Oneel ) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Windows 3.0 on a 286 Message-ID: Date: 20 May 91 14:24:11 GMT Article-I.D.: heawk1.ONEEL.91May20102411 References: <32974@usc> Sender: news@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov Organization: STX/GSFC Nasa Lines: 33 In-reply-to: sharp@mizar.usc.edu's message of 17 May 91 22:02:45 GMT In article <32974@usc> sharp@mizar.usc.edu (Malcolm Sharp) writes: I'd like to hear your experiences about running Windows on a 286- based PC. Minimum RAM? Desireable RAM? monitor? DOS apps? Windows apps? etc... My feeling is that the base platform should be a 386SX and the price difference between 286 and 386SX tells me to go for the latter. Thanks in advance. -- Malcolm Sharp Coordinator, Instructional/Technical Support University of Southern California School of Public Administration I've been running windows on a 12mhz 286 with 2.5 meg of memory and a SLOW hard disk for about 2 months. I've found this to be a good setup. The hard disk seems to be the bottle neck at the moment. There was a big difference between 1 meg and 2.5 meg. I've heard that 2 meg is a good minimum for a 286. When I put the 286 in 6mhz I find it quite slow so 12mhz might be a good minimum. I run shareware windows applications and do BC++ development. I don't have any huge windows applications to run though. The multi-tasking is a bit slow and dos switching is quite slow. I normally exit windows to do dos work because with a slow hard disk it isn't much fun. bruce -- Bruce O'Neel oneel@heasfs.gsfc.nasa.gov NASA/GSFC/STX/Code 664