Comment on $200-ish laptop with a 386 and 8MB of RAM is a modern take on Windows 3.1 era
just_another_person@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Running anything on a 386 was NOT fun. I don’t think I’d pay $200 for the privilege of hating it all over again.
aseriesoftubes@lemmy.world 3 months ago
At the same time, it forced me to learn. Nowadays, every game and app you’d want is a few clicks away, and most likely it’ll just work without having to think about IRQ settings or COM ports or whether there’s enough space on your 50 MB hard disk.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah, but they should have gone with a 486DX, or SX at least. HUGE difference. The 386 was just too damned frustrating, but it was the first work PC I ever laid hands on. For a personal computer, I upgraded from a 286 to a Pentium 200.
Hawke@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah, 486 DX4/100 was the peak of DOS gaming.