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- From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc Wandschneider)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: Re: REQUIREMENTS TO RUN NT - HELP
- Message-ID: <C19K21.Fuy@cs.mcgill.ca>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 16:20:22 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.005125.4596@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Sender: news@cs.mcgill.ca (Netnews Administrator)
- Organization: SOCS - McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- In article <1993Jan21.005125.4596@nuscc.nus.sg> eng10056@nusunix1.nus.sg (LAU YIN CHENG) writes:
- >I am currently haveing a 486DX-33 system with 4MB memory and the system
- >is of 16-bit bus structure.
- >
- >Can NT run on a 16-bit bus structure?
- >Does Win32 need a 32-bit structure?
- >
- >I was thinking about upgrading my system's memory to 16MB to prepare it
- >for NT. But when I discovered that my system is of 16-bit bus structure
- >I hesitated. That is the reason why I posed the question.
-
- The ISA bus DOES Suck, but Microsoft has gone out of it's way to
- allow users to have more memory under NT, provided the system supports it.
-
- Disk Access might start to get a little toxic with bottlenecks, but
- everything will run fine on your system.
-
- I am currently running a homemade 486/50 with 16MB RAM and lots of
- disks, and everything is working just zippy.
-
- Toodlepip!
- Marc 'em.
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- storm@cs.mcgill.ca McGill P.O.W Camp "Oh crap---It's not
- Marc Wandschneider Montreal, CANADA random enough"
- Any opinions expressed are not mine, but those of the Demon Lord
- Yeegeheeegenogohugu who possessed me whilst I munched on Raisin Bran.
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