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"could run" is a very apt phrase - I remember installing office upgrades in that era, users would go to lunch when we started the upgrade and it would still be
by nikau 5y ago
"could run" is a very apt phrase - I remember installing office upgrades in that era, users would go to lunch when we started the upgrade and it would still be installing an hour later.
Mostly it was just constant disk thrashing due to the lack of ram.
Machines were usable otherwise as users mostly just ran word, outlook, and a bunch of telnet sessions. Most users took the NT option as windows 95 was so unstable.
- hyperman1 5y agoConsidering win95 was still being distributed on floppys, you had to be thankfull that you could leave the machine alone that long. I still have nightmares from the insert disk x of y message appearing, followed by 2 minutesh of grnsh grnsh grnsh floppy reading. On bad days, at x=y-1, some vengefull god would have corrupted a disk and you were stuck.
- nikau 5y agoThankfully it was on a corporate network with 10megabit ethernet to the desktops - the only stuff running 100meg were the FDDI fibre connected servers. Still better than floppies at least.