RE: [MLUG] Study: Open source poses security risks (???)

["Spurling, Shannon" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

286 was the actual minimum requirement, but it didn't have the protected mode done correctly. Since it didn't have protected mode, you couldn't drop back to DOS. It was kind of a one way boot, and it caused issues. Also, the WIN32 extensions would not run on a 286. From what I understood, Microsoft pushed Intel to include Protected mode in the 286, but what they came back with was not what they wanted. The 386 was the first processor to get it right, but they sacrificed some 8086 backward compatibility to get there. I forget the specifics, it was a long time ago. Windows 3.11 would run on a 286, though. 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ross, Matt [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 3:20 PM
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Subject: RE: [MLUG] Study: Open source poses security risks (???)


> hehe..
> wim requirements were 80386 1MB of memory i think 1 or 4 MB of mem

Ah, ok.  I thought it was a 286.  So I was actually two processors behind
;-)
The processors in the lab it was intended for use in were 486's.  There were
200mhz P1's starting to filter into some of the better labs at that time,
but a lot of the hardware was signifigantly older.  The newest hardware was
Macintosh though - their brand new G3 PowerPC's :-)

The next semmester that lab was replaced by P2's with Win95.

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