Grzyb wrote on 2020-09-03, 22:06:Must be some mistake, once I saw NT4 "running" with 16 MB, and it was one of the most painful experiences in my life.
I would sa […]
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DosFreak wrote on 2020-09-03, 21:20:
Must be some mistake, once I saw NT4 "running" with 16 MB, and it was one of the most painful experiences in my life.
I would say the reasonable minium is 64 MB.
With 8 MB... well, maybe the original release of Windows 95 would be acceptable, but not for running anything bigger than Minesweeper.
Windows 95 technically *ran* with 4MB already, but only because it had to. Before the Win95 release, PCs were not seldomly fitted with 1/2/4MB only.
In fact, many venerable 386/486 laptops and luggables (portables) that I came across in the 90s (with non-upgradeable memory) were tortured with Win95.. Just because Win95 was considered a must-have. It was such a sad experience, really, that made me feel sorry. 😢
The HDDs crackled and stuttered, as if the PCs were desperately drying to breathe, but were drowning nevertheless.
The programs that ran acceptable on a low-end Win95 system were mainly Windows 3.x and early Windows NT 3.x titles (via Win32s), if memory serves.
These usually were very resource friendly and made by one-man companies and hobbyists.
You know, shovelware. Freeware, Shareware, Public Domain.. Not MS Office or Lotus Organizer. 😉
Edit: That's an old story perhaps, but my father ran Win95 Retail/RTM on a 386DX-40, that he upgraded to 16MB of RAM.
And had two "big" 120MB/250MB IDE HDDs.
One for OS/programs, one for data..
Edit: I ran Win98SE on a Pentium 75 or 133 with 24MB of RAM for a while (in 2001?).
It wasn't awesome by any means, but I remember acceptably surfing the WWW with it over dial-up (IE5.5; snoopy/peanuts site?) and playing Need for Speed II SE via software rendering.. Not sure if this helpful, though.
My perception perhaps was not the same as that of a typical gamer, you know.. 😅
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