391
Grateful for the continued windows 95 updates at least. (startrek.website)
submitted 1 year ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/funny@lemmy.ml
26 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago

Could Windows 95 really run well on only 32 megs of RAM?

[-] ratman150@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

Officially the min required amount of ram is 4mb for win95 and 70mb of disk space.

[-] LucyLastic@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

I bought it on release (on floppy disks) and it did indeed run on 4mb of ram ... it took about 10 mins to boot, and was grinding the disk for swap constantly, but it did run :-)

16mb was plenty for it.

[-] this_1_is_mine@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just an fyi minimum for XP is 64mb.

But it is totally possible to run a striped down install on 32mb and not have it just abuse the swap space. With a under 120mb install space.

[-] spauldo@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

I did tech support for a computer line that had Windows 95 on 8MB of RAM. It was pretty snappy for its time. Windows 3.1 flew on that hardware.

32MB of RAM on a PC? Only UNIX workstations and servers had that kind of luxury.

[-] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

my first win 95 pc had a whopping 8MB of ram. I got into programming on that thing

[-] cobra89@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah:

The minimum hardware requirements for Microsoft Windows 95 are:

>A personal computer with a 386DX, 20MHz or higher processor, running the MS-DOS operating system version 3.2 or later, or running Microsoft Windows version 3.0 or later, or running OS/2 version 2.0 or later

>Note: Do not install Windows 95 on a computer with a B1 (stepping) chip.
>4MB of memory (8MB recommended)
>At least 70MB of available hard disk space for installation

>Actual requirements may vary based on features you choose to install. UITS recommends that you keep at least 10% of the drive free to reduce errors and fragmentation; therefore, on a 1GB drive, keep 100MB free.
>One 3.5" high-density disk drive or a CD-ROM drive
>VGA or higher resolution graphics card
this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2023
391 points (98.8% liked)

Share Funny Videos, Images, Memes, Quotes and more

2434 readers
38 users here now

#funny

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
laurabrown00@lemmy.ml