Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!indri!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!mailrus!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!me!yap
From: yap@me.utoronto.ca (Davin Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Why call it Windows/286?
Message-ID: <89May12.200759edt.19684@me.utoronto.ca>
Date: 13 May 89 00:07:44 GMT
References: <89May12.000432edt.19614@me.utoronto.ca> <48213@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: yap@hammer.me.UUCP (Davin Yap)
Organization: University of Toronto Mechanical Engineering
Lines: 14

In article <48213@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Harold McMillan <mcmillan@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>the minimum acceptable platform upon which to run Windows/286.  If you have
>ever run it on an 8088 (I have) I think you would agree.  Besides, even if
>they changed the name, 386 laptops would still be too heavy and pricey.
>
>Hal McMillan

Yes, but I'm getting a NEC ProSpeed 286 and it would have been nice if
Windows/286 did as it's name would have one think.

PS:  I've run Windows/286 on a 8MHz 8086 box (att 6300) and it wasn't so
     bad.

Davin