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What are the original system requirements as stated by Micro$oft for Windows 3.1? Also, what about 3.0?

I really don't know minimum but I successfully run 3.11 on
80286 processor @ 6/11 mhz (turbo switch)
4 MB ram without Expanded memory manager
No math co-processor..AMI bios and and tweaked VGA display at 640x480.I have used Dos 5.0 and it worked well, now use 6.22, and Shell into Norton desktop for Windows 2.0. Disable Navx and smartcan...
Note: no Internet access, no networking and cannot run in 386 enhanced mode..but, runs Word 2.0,Excel 4.0, CorelDrw 2.0,Windows Draw 2.0,Micrografx Designer, Chessmaster for Windows 3.0, Adobe Illustrator V 1.0, Picture Publisher 3.0, Pagemaker 4.0 and others..
Recommend minimum of 80386 for fuller functionality, but 286 will do these things at least..
Smitty

3.0 5/22/90 Requirements
- MS-DOS 3.1 or higher
- 1 MB RAM3.10 4/6/92 Requirements
- MS-DOS 3.1 or later
- IBM compatible 80286 or higher (386 recommended)
- 640K Conventional memory
- 256K extended memory (XMS v 2.0 or higher)
- 1024K extended memory recommended on 80286
- 2048K extended memory recommended on 80386
- Fixed drive with 6 megabytes free (10 megabytes recommended)
- EGA, VGA, SVGA, XGA, 8514/A, or Hercules video card or 100% compatible card, and monitor
- Mouse recommendedThe above is from Microsoft.
Personal minimum recommendation:
Windows 3.0: a 286 with 2 MB RAM is enough, but better 3 or 4 MBWindows 3.1: 386 with 4 MB RAM

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