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Comparing Today's Computers To 1995's

Posted by samzenpus on from the pentium-80-how-I-miss-you dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A look back at two articles from 1995, touting high end computers and 'must haves.' How times have changed... ...'Memory (RAM): We seem to have convinced most manufacturers to adopt eight megabytes as standard, compared with four megabytes in 1994. Don't buy less than eight. The difference in performance between an eight megabyte machine and a four-megabyte machine can be dramatic.'"

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  1. I had four megabytes and it was pretty by AdamHaun · · Score: 4, Informative

    My 486 only had four megabytes of RAM. I had to reboot and bypass CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to run Doom. The reason? My mouse driver took up too much memory. And this was in DOS, where you only had three or four drivers to begin with.

    (Before any other old folks ask -- I already had other drivers in upper memory so the mouse driver wouldn't fit there.)

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  2. Re:Windows 95 vs Windows 7 by phantomfive · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nevermind, I was wrong about that. First service pack was 1996.

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  3. Re:Windows 95 vs Windows 7 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's OK. This is Slashdot. You'll be modded up to +5, Informative, anyway.