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Re:Rust hello world app for Windows 95, cross-compiled from ... by bitwize on Saturday May 13, 2023 @03:19PM (#35931739)
A 486 with a few megs of RAM coukd not run Windows 95 in a snappy manner. It would swap like bugfuck. To do Windows 95 usably, you probably need 8 MiB minimum, 12 or 16 MiB ideally.

Windows 3.x you could get away with 4 MiB. And that and Office 1.0 could fit in 100 MiB. Even then, we complained about it.

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Re:Rust hello world app for Windows 95, cross-compiled from ... by FeistySkink on Saturday May 13, 2023 @05:22PM (#35932880)
According to Wikipedia, Office 95 required 28 to 88 MB of storage.
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Re:Rust hello world app for Windows 95, cross-compiled from ... by kragen on Sunday May 14, 2023 @04:08PM (#35940965)
linux at the time could theoretically run in 2 mebibytes but worked a lot better in 4
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