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$200-ish laptop with a 386 and 8MB of RAM is a modern take on Windows 3.1 era (arstechnica.com)
submitted 4 months ago by DrGiltspur@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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Pocket 386 supports external accessories and will just barely run Windows 95.

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 35 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah, 486 DX4/100 was the peak of DOS gaming.