LINUX on Windows 98

[Jimmy Montague]

Yeah, well if it was a howling dog, I bet it stuttered when it howled.
With only 8 megs of RAM in there, it couldn't remember how to howl right
the first time.

One time on TV, when I was just a little guy, I saw Jack Benny get
mugged on a sidewalk in NY. The mugger stuck a revolver in his face and
snarled "Yer money or yer life!" Jack couldn't answer right away: he
needed a few minutes to think about it.

On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 09:03 -0700, Steven Davies-Morris wrote:
> Jimmy Montague wrote:
> > As I recall, Karl, Win 95 will run in 8 megs of RAM -- but you
> > won't like it. I had it in a 16 mb, DX-2/66 and it was reasonably
> > fast, but my girlfriend installed it in 8 mb and it was
> > nightmarishly slow.
> > 
> > Jimmy
> 
> I once tried to put a print server together for a customer's LAN using
> Win95 in the minimum spec config of 8mb.  It was a howling dog.  One
> week later I took it to 16mb and it ran respectably enough to do its
> job for several years.
> -- 
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