8086 with VGA were rare, but they did exist. In the late '80s, when 386's were common, I got a (cheap) Okidata 8086 with onboard Paradise VGA and 1MB RAM. It ran Windows 3.0 in real mode with 256 colours at 640x480, barely.
For those who only had black&white on VGA's, all I can suggest is that you didn't actually have the VGA driver installed. Windows Setup was a DOS-based program back then - outside of Windows 3.0, run c:\windows\setup.exe, and change the video adapter to VGA.
Get a PSP. It does music, movies, web, rss, games and now also internet radio (just added with last update).
With a custom firmware, it can do all of the above and also remote control your TV.
I had Windows 95 on a 386SX/16 with a whopping 4MB of RAM. It wasn't much slower than Win3.1/Dos6.2 on the same setup (it ran Office acceptably, in the days before Clippy), so long as you made a large, fixed size, swap file. There was actually a special kernel just for SX machines (detected by setup). It took over 15 minutes to boot, even with a totally empty StartUp folder. Never had IE on there though: it was the original Win95 release, the one that came on 13 floppies and had no IE.
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PSN Plus added online savefile backups a couple of months ago. It's part of the reason I signed up for it.
8086 with VGA were rare, but they did exist. In the late '80s, when 386's were common, I got a (cheap) Okidata 8086 with onboard Paradise VGA and 1MB RAM. It ran Windows 3.0 in real mode with 256 colours at 640x480, barely. For those who only had black&white on VGA's, all I can suggest is that you didn't actually have the VGA driver installed. Windows Setup was a DOS-based program back then - outside of Windows 3.0, run c:\windows\setup.exe, and change the video adapter to VGA.
Get a PSP. It does music, movies, web, rss, games and now also internet radio (just added with last update). With a custom firmware, it can do all of the above and also remote control your TV.
I had Windows 95 on a 386SX/16 with a whopping 4MB of RAM.
It wasn't much slower than Win3.1/Dos6.2 on the same setup (it ran Office acceptably, in the days before Clippy), so long as you made a large, fixed size, swap file. There was actually a special kernel just for SX machines (detected by setup). It took over 15 minutes to boot, even with a totally empty StartUp folder. Never had IE on there though: it was the original Win95 release, the one that came on 13 floppies and had no IE.
Actually, it's IRIX running FSN.
There's an open source clone called FSV.