On 2/12/19 11:32 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I used one laptop with about 1 MiB, back in the day. It might be more, it might be less, too long ago to actually remember (~1995). It was MsDOS, possibly Win 3. The only laptop on the company.
I have seen 1 MB laptops, sure. Sony did a series of 286 and 386 aluminium-cased tanks that were very popular among people who did adventurous stuff like round-the-world yachting. But not in 1995, no. These were late-1980s/early-1990s machines. Here's a 1989 advert for 80286-based laptops: https://books.google.cz/books?id=B43yj9NtswMC&pg=PA202#v=onepage&q&f=false By 1995, a normal mid-range PC was a 486 and a cheap laptop was a 386SX with 4MB of RAM. That is _why_ Win95 targeted a 4MB 386: it was a basic spec in 1995. Totally agreed re Win3, though. It would just barely crawl along in Real Mode in 640 kB of RAM, run OK in Standard Mode in 2 MB of RAM on a 286, and 386 Enhanced Mode needed a 386 (obviously) and 4 MB of RAM. For the ultimate experience, Windows for Workgroups 3.11 on a 4 MB 386 gave you 32-bit Disk Access (also in ordinary Windows 3.1) but also 32-bit *file* access... via a driver called VFAT.VXD, which is why the Linux FAT driver is called VFAT. -- Liam Proven - Technical Writer, SUSE Linux s.r.o. Corso II, Křižíkova 148/34, 186-00 Praha 8 - Karlín, Czechia Email: lproven@suse.com - Office telephone: +420 284 241 084 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org