Windoze reqs

[Josh Dersch]

> Not enough ram, at 8mb it become moderately useful.  I used to make 
> headless print network servers that way.  Install 95B, strip out OE/IE
> and cruft install laser printer driver put on net.  It usually fits 
> well in 100MB.  Prefered CPU for that was any of the miniboard 386 or 
> 486s but one time I had a 386sx/16 brick and used it with good results 
> (it was a slow printer to start with).  The boards with 86sx were best
> cooling was never an issue so the fans could fail and CPU coolers 
> were not needed.
>
>   
Right, with 8mb or more RAM, win95 was a pretty decent experience most 
of the time.  But my 20Mhz, 4mb, EGA machine was an experiment just to 
see what was the lowest spec hardware I could get 95 to run on.  The 
lack of RAM was one thing, but the Miniscribe MFM drive and controller 
was what really made the experience :).  No native 32-bit drivers for 
the controller, and a seek time of somewhere around 3 seconds (ok, I 
exaggerate) meant that the machine was waiting for the disk most of the 
time, and since it was swapping constantly... well, I booted it once 
just to say I'd done it and left it at that :).

Josh