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System Requirements for Windows 3.1

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Name: Steve
Date: November 21, 2001 at 20:39:57 Pacific
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What are the original system requirements as stated by Micro$oft for Windows 3.1? Also, what about 3.0?



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Name: Smitty
Date: November 22, 2001 at 01:21:32 Pacific
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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



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Name: rinpocse
Date: November 22, 2001 at 08:47:37 Pacific
Reply:

3.0 5/22/90 Requirements

- MS-DOS 3.1 or higher
- 1 MB RAM

3.10 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 recommended

The above is from Microsoft.

Personal minimum recommendation:
Windows 3.0: a 286 with 2 MB RAM is enough, but better 3 or 4 MB

Windows 3.1: 386 with 4 MB RAM


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Response Number 3
Name: Steve
Date: November 23, 2001 at 07:49:50 Pacific
Reply:

Thanks everybody for your reply. I was just curious.


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