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A 486 with a few megs of RAM coukd not run Windows 95 in a snappy manner. It would swap like bugfuck. To do Windows 95 usably, you probably need 8 MiB minimum,
by bitwize 4y ago
A 486 with a few megs of RAM coukd not run Windows 95 in a snappy manner. It would swap like bugfuck. To do Windows 95 usably, you probably need 8 MiB minimum, 12 or 16 MiB ideally.
Windows 3.x you could get away with 4 MiB. And that and Office 1.0 could fit in 100 MiB. Even then, we complained about it.
- kragen 4y agolinux at the time could theoretically run in 2 mebibytes but worked a lot better in 4
- FeistySkink 4y agoAccording to Wikipedia, Office 95 required 28 to 88 MB of storage.