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I fired up Windows 2.03 in DOSBox, with its clock app, available on archive.org[1], and it took up 60.1 MB. This is fun! I think the OS would run fine (at lea
by bonyt 9y ago
I fired up Windows 2.03 in DOSBox, with its clock app, available on archive.org[1], and it took up 60.1 MB. This is fun! I think the OS would run fine (at least, enough for the clock) with as little as 512K of ram[2].
Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/09xjyPs.png https://i.imgur.com/09xjyPs.png
[1]: https://archive.org/details/msdos_win2_03 https://archive.org/details/msdos_win2_03
[2]: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/32905/windows-version-history https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/32905/windows-versi... ("512K of memory or greater" for 2.03).
- c-smile 9y agoIf you have screen of size 640*480 and rendering without AA then you can render by CPU. Otherwise, with modern hardware and 200 ppi monitors you will need GPU rendering with the whole infrastructure.