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On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Ken Hough wrote:
I expect that you would have trouble trying to run any form of windows on your 386 PC. I'm currently playing with playing with an old Toshiba Satalite Pro 480 CDT (233 MHz Pentium with 64 MB Ram). KDE3 will run but there's so much swapping that it's not viable. icewm is sort of OK, but still sluggish.
I know from personal experience that more RAM will make a world of difference. Untill recently, I used a 233 MHz K6 with 160 MB of RAM, and it ran KDE fine. A tad slow on startup and when starting Konqueror, but nothing else to complain about. IceWM was very fast and responsive. Even after days of use, it hadn't used more than a tiny bit of my swap.
I might have some spare RAM chips that could work in the 386. Let me know what your PC needs and I'll have a look.
I am certain that he could very well make use of whatever amount of RAM his 386 has room for. Regards Ole