• this_1_is_mine@lemmy.ml
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        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.

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        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.

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      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.

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      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