I agree with Demetri. Running Win3.1x with 8Mb RAM should work well, a
bit slowly maybe, but it works - I did it with 2Mb and then 4mb RAM. The
key is to run software designed for Win3.x, not for Win9x. Plenty of
useful/usable software, if you don't need all the bells/whistles of
today's software. Also, it might not be easy to find compatible RAM on
today's mkt - I doubt that the typical "cheap" 100/133Mhz RAM of today is
compatible with a 486/33 system. Ergo, if you want to run software
designed for WinME or Win2k, etc, you must have a compatible system. I
can't imagine a 486/33 system running today's software, but it can run
yesterday's software very well. Many folks don't really need today's
bells/whistles.
   Bottom line? Check the docs on the 486/33 to see how much and what
kind of RAM sticks it will support. Good luck finding the type of RAM
needed. If they need to run "modern" software, they should get a "modern"
system and find another use for the 486/33.
Jack Payton

On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 19:23:04 -0400 Demetri Kolokotronis
<[log in to unmask]> writes:
> On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 16:02:13 -0700 Mark Rode <[log in to unmask]>
> writes:
> > Eight megs of RAM won't cut it for anything...even Win 3.1. I
> > know..I  lived with 8 megs of RAM on a  486 DX33 for a year
> > back in 1993 or was it 92.
> >
> > Rode
>
> I ran Win95/IE on several computers with 8M RAM. Works; can be slow,
but
> not necessarily. RAM is cheap now, but upgrade RAM to replace 8M RAM
may
> not be.
>
> Demetri Kolokotronis

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