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Re:AMD Ryzen AMA by bebop on Friday April 14, 2017 @12:39PM (#14115443)
You are correct, the 80286 was a 16-bit processor. You might have been able to run Win 95 on a 386, but a 486 was probably as low as you really wanted to go, and really a Pentium was needed to have a usable system.
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Re:AMD Ryzen AMA by vetinari on Friday April 14, 2017 @05:23PM (#14117530)
Win95 did run on 386, even with 4 MB of RAM. But you really did want at least 8 MB, otherwise it would just trash the disk swapping.

Running it on Pentium with 16 MB RAM was great.

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Re:AMD Ryzen AMA by i80and on Friday April 14, 2017 @12:55PM (#14115535)
I ran Windows 95 on a 486. It was... well, it worked. I can't imagine running a 386.
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