Comment on $200-ish laptop with a 386 and 8MB of RAM is a modern take on Windows 3.1 era
aseriesoftubes@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoAt 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 2 weeks 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 1 week ago
Yeah, 486 DX4/100 was the peak of DOS gaming.