On Sun, Jan 8, 2023 at 11:52 AM Liam Proven via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > Win95/Win98 would be happy with a PC/AT 286, with appropriate RAM > > Nope. 32-bit only. 386DX or later. I tried it and benchmarked it at > the time of release. And it beat WfWg 3.11 by a significant margin, to > everyone's amazement.
I have a memory of installing Windows 95 on a monochrome 386SX laptop w/4MB of RAM in August, 1995 at McMurdo because that's the equipment we had on hand when Win95 arrived on the continent. It was unpleasantly slow but it did run. Way better on a 486 w/8MB. -ethan
