And why NOT running Win95 on a 386?
You don't have to boot GUI if you don't need it. Its MS-DOS 7 with an option to load a GUI, if you need one. So i would definitely install Windows 95 on a 386, in fact all my 3 386s have Windows 95 installed. 386DX-33 even ran Quake 2 once! Well, kinda slideshow but still...
It took me approx 5 hours to install Windows 95 on a 386SX-16.
I'll tell you why Windows 95 sucks on a 386 even if you boot to DOS mode. It's super annoying switching between the command prompt and the GUI on the fly. What does it take win95 to load on a 386? 5 minutes? How long does it take to load Windows 3.x? About 5 seconds. Not to mention, when 9x crashes, you must reboot (which happens often, and takes forever). In Windows 3.x, when it crashes (which it also does frequently) you get tossed to the command prompt.
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wrote:And why NOT running Win95 on a 386?
You don't have to boot GUI if you don't need it. Its MS-DOS 7 with an option to load a GUI, if you need one. So i would definitely install Windows 95 on a 386, in fact all my 3 386s have Windows 95 installed. 386DX-33 even ran Quake 2 once! Well, kinda slideshow but still...
It took me approx 5 hours to install Windows 95 on a 386SX-16.
i have heard of running quake2 slideshow on 386 back in 1998, but never saw it by myself.
how much ram do your 386 machines have? i had hoped for 32mb but the board has only 4 simm slots.
