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From: Graeme Wall <>
Subject: Re: 1881 Census look-up London
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 18:59:58 +0100


In message <>
Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake <> wrote:

> In article <31fbd51a49%>, Graeme Wall
> <> writes
> >
> >Quite correct Barney. I have a PC card but it is a basic 486 running Windows
> >3.1 which I gather, from comments by you and others, is not up to the task of
> >running the LDS software.
>
> It's not the processor that is the limiting factor here, rather the
> Operating System. You will need a 32 bit version of Windows (Win 3.11
> with the Win32s add-on will *not* work) such as Windows 95 or higher.
> Windows 95 will run happily enough on a 486 66MHz provided it has enough
> RAM. It will squeak by with 8MB but really needs 16MB or more. I have
> run the LDS 1881 census on a 486 with 16MB quite happily despite the
> minimum spec on the packaging that says it should be a Pentium
> processor.
>
Thanks Barney, I have to confess that Micro$loth software is something of a
mystery to me, know where can I get a cheap copy of Win 95 :-)
--
Graeme Wall

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