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MEMORY REQUIREMENTS NT

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Name: XENA
Date: August 3, 2002 at 20:59:00 Pacific
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I am learning the different memory requirements for the operating systems and would like to know the memory requirements of:

NT

Thanks.



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Name: uneak
Date: August 3, 2002 at 21:28:04 Pacific
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I had an old 486 with 16MB RAM and managed to install Windows NT on it without issues. NT is not demanding at all.

Minimal Requirements:
486 CPU
16MB RAM
CD ROM
a minimal install will consume approx 60-70MB of an HDD if that.


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Response Number 2
Name: mike
Date: August 4, 2002 at 08:14:55 Pacific
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it'll run on just about anything but, running and running well are two different things...the more memory the better on ALL NT OS's.


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Response Number 3
Name: XENA
Date: August 4, 2002 at 21:10:34 Pacific
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Thanks.

Wish I had years of expeience, only have about 1 year on the insides and 20+ years of typing.


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Response Number 4
Name: VBdevr
Date: August 13, 2002 at 18:44:28 Pacific
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I have used NT4 on a 486DX2, with 12 meg ram. The install wants 120mb hd to install.

It was a little sluggish, but it was more stable than Win3.1 or Win95 in 1997...

Nowdays, NT shouldn't be installed on any machine with less than 32 MB ram, due to the required service packs and newer runtime libraries.


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