Will windows 3.1 run on any of the newer processors? Is it restricted to the x86’s? I have killer software which wont run on anything newer. Will it run on pentiums? Thank you very much.
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“Backing up a 486 to try out 95 on, see what happens. I read 95 should work, just dont know about the the clock…”
Win95 should work fine on a 486 as long as it has sufficient memory:
4MB–just beyond “bootable”
8MB–usable, but somewhat slow
16MB-32MB–the “sweet spot”
>32MB–probably a waste of memory (Win95 original & Win95A required some tweaking to get 32MB to work properly, Win95B & C didn’t).
Of course a 486DX66 would be far better than a 486sx20, but I’ve installed it on a 386sx16 (16MB of RAM/60MB HDD) and (painfully) gotten broadband (DSL) to work…
@MisterGopher:
“By having your IE5 cache preloaded into the Ram Drive…”
I don’t use IE (any version) on Win3.x. Opera 3.62 seems to be better able to handle “the current state of the web” better than any other 3.x browser out there.
“The RAM Drive is especially good for DOS browsing using Arachne…”
Haven’t been able to use Arachne since I changed ISP’s way back in 1999, and don’t really need it since getting DSL back in 2006. Arachne was good on low-end, DOS-only machines (if you could get it to work with your ISP), but (as mentioned in my #5 above), I’ve pretty much given up on those…
“Channeling the spirit of jboy…”