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- From: johnwu@netcom.com (John M. Wu)
- Subject: Re: More questions for omniscient netters
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.030003.1220@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
- References: <1993Jan25.172305.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:00:03 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.172305.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu> jsmcgi01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu writes:
- >I posted above about the possible systems that I am going to purchase and I
- >left out a few important questions.
- >Addendum:
- >1.) Is having 8 megs of RAM that important?? I plan on running windows
- >software and some DOS stuff. All the machines I have looked at come with 4
- >megs.
-
- Depends. For DOS stuff, pretty much no. For Windoze, possibly.
- Check the memory requirements for your software and guess how much you'll
- need. Note: You can "get away" with not having enough memory by using
- virtual memory but it will he hella slow. IMHO, tolerable amount of
- Windoze memory is 4 megs but 8 megs is more desirable.
-
- >2.) Is a 170 meg HD large enough for a machine today? Originally the machines
- >I was looking at came with 130 Meg HDs, but I heard that the average windows
- >prog is 8 meg so I upgraded a bit.
-
- 200+ meg drives are getting cheap now. If you can, go for those instead if
- you feel that 130 meg is insufficient.
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