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In article <32974@usc> sharp@mizar.usc.edu (Malcolm Sharp) writes:

   I'd like to hear your experiences about running Windows on a 286-
   based PC.  Minimum RAM? Desireable RAM? monitor? DOS apps?
   Windows apps?  etc...

   My feeling is that the base platform should be a 386SX and the
   price difference between 286 and 386SX tells me to go for the
   latter.

   Thanks in advance.

   -- 
   Malcolm Sharp
   Coordinator, Instructional/Technical Support
   University of Southern California
   School of Public Administration

I've been running windows on a 12mhz 286 with 2.5 meg of memory and a
SLOW hard disk for about 2 months.  I've found this to be a good
setup.  The hard disk seems to be the bottle neck at the moment.
There was a big difference between 1 meg and 2.5 meg.  I've heard that
2 meg is a good minimum for a 286.  When I put the 286 in 6mhz I find
it quite slow so 12mhz might be a good minimum.  I run shareware
windows applications and do BC++ development.  I don't have any huge
windows applications to run though.    The multi-tasking is a bit slow
and dos switching is quite slow.  I normally exit windows to do dos
work because with a slow hard disk it isn't much fun.

bruce
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Bruce O'Neel              oneel@heasfs.gsfc.nasa.gov
NASA/GSFC/STX/Code 664