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Grateful for the continued windows 95 updates at least. (startrek.website)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Could Windows 95 really run well on only 32 megs of RAM?

[–] ratman150 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Officially the min required amount of ram is 4mb for win95 and 70mb of disk space.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just an fyi minimum for XP is 64mb.

But it is totally possible to run a striped down install on 32mb and not have it just abuse the swap space. With a under 120mb install space.

[–] LucyLastic 7 points 1 year ago

I bought it on release (on floppy disks) and it did indeed run on 4mb of ram ... it took about 10 mins to boot, and was grinding the disk for swap constantly, but it did run :-)

16mb was plenty for it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

I did tech support for a computer line that had Windows 95 on 8MB of RAM. It was pretty snappy for its time. Windows 3.1 flew on that hardware.

32MB of RAM on a PC? Only UNIX workstations and servers had that kind of luxury.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

my first win 95 pc had a whopping 8MB of ram. I got into programming on that thing