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To: gura

Win 3.1 should run pretty fast on a newer computer

OK.. it won’t run at all because it is limited to certain size hdd’s and RAM or something


36 posted on 01/08/2014 1:37:27 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: GeronL

It screams on VMWare!


58 posted on 01/08/2014 2:48:39 PM PST by gura (If Allah is so great, why does he need fat sexually confused fanboys to do his dirty work? -iowahawk)
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To: GeronL

The problem with win 3 and ram is once you get past 50mb it will truncate the value above that. So if you have 500mb it will see the 00 and think you have no ram in the system so it won’t run. If you put an odd amount of ram in your computer like 532 mb, then it will truncate it to 32mb and win 3 will run fine thinking it has 32mb to run on.

And in that regard, there is nothing wrong with Win3
I am using Win3.11 to post this reply as a mater of fact.

Screw all that new fangled junk, i am going to stick with the original network operating system. :-)

In reality, besides this old Win 3.11 computer I keep on the electronics workbench to run old programs, my main internet computer is a windows XP machine. I will upgrade that machine to a newer OS when I feel the time is right. But now isn’t that time.

And yes, I am using a win 3.11 computer to post this!


65 posted on 01/08/2014 3:17:06 PM PST by Rage cat
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