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In note <Peersen-2408951024500001@chem8.colorado.edu>, Peersen@Colorado.edu 
(Olve Peersen) writes: 
>In article <iowajeff.79.0016554F@ins.infonet.net>,
>iowajeff@ins.infonet.net (Jeff S Johansen) wrote:
>
>> >        Lemme quote something interesting from the Win95 SETUP.TXT file:
>> 
>> >        "Installing Windows 95 on a 4 MB or 386 computer from floppy 
>> >disks may be very slow."
>> 
>> >        more Marxist Microsoft propaganda
>> 
>> >        Hmm, now I'm wondering, if just INSTALLING the damn thing onto 
>> >the "386 4Mb" machine is going to be "very slow," then how the hell am I 
>> >going to run my applications "up to 50% faster than 3.11?!"
>> 
>> >        If you haven't figured it out some of you, Bill Gates is feeding 
>> >you complete and utter bullshit.
>> 
>> Uhh.. INSTALLING it from FLOPPY on a 386 will be slow.. INSTALLING is the 
>> operative word here silly! Sheesh!
>
>
>Guys,
>
>  I just hate to spoil the party, but I can run the current MacOS 7.5.1 on
>a 8 MB MacIIci designed BACK IN 1989!!! PLUS, I can run several
>non-Microsoft programs at the same time.  I will agree though, that if I
>really need current versions of Microsoft products I probably should
>upgrade to 64 MB on my '89 vintage IIci and take Ritalin to increase my
>attention span enough to wait for Word 6.0.1 to load.
>
>  And my file names have always had spaces and been more than 8 characters 
>long.
     Well, I've run Linux on a 386sx-16 with 4 megs of RAM.. this is 1986
vintage.  It runs fine.
     Also, On my 486slc2-66 with 10 megs of RAM, it will run great.. I can
start many programs 8-).  I've had 10 people on at once, with little speed
degradation.. I once had 2 programs compiling, xv (a picture viewer) and
netscape open.  It was a little slow but quite useable speed.  Now *this* is
using memory efficiently 8-).
     In 4 megs of RAM.. X is more or less out without quite a bit of
tweaking (although it'll run, and if you just use a machine as a *display*,
running the apps on another machine, it'll work okay in 4.) , but SVGAlib
(full screen graphics programs.. mainly games..) run fine (I ran LinuxDoom
and LinuxDoom II in 4megs, and it worked okay once it did it's ~2 minutes of
startup..) and text programs will run very very well in this much too.. and
unlike in with Micrsoft products, you don't have to choose between 16-bit
640K of RAM programs and graphical programs.. it uses up to 3 gigs of RAM
and umm... I dunno a hell of a lot of swap, either with graphics *or* text
programs.
     And of course, M$ doesn't write anything for Linux, so I have no M$
programs there..

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>Olve Peersen                               Peersen@Colorado.edu
>University of Colorado - Boulder
>Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry
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