LINUX on Windows 98

[Steven Davies-Morris]

Jimmy Montague wrote:
> 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.

Yup. That's pretty much it -- a stuttering howling dog. From that day
on I always assumed that twice the minimum RAM that the box said was
what a Microsoft OS would need to run half-way decently.
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