We strongly recommend that Win95 users upgrade as soon as possible. CIT will not support Windows 95 beyond 2001. Older Pentium processors, running at less than 166 MHz, will yield degraded performance, particularly in systems without a generous amount of memory. Dropping below these memory recommendations will impact performance, especially in conjunction with a slower processor. Doubling the minimum recommended memory will yield a significant boost in performance.
Contemporary software is often quite large, and requires appreciable free space to install.
A CD-ROM drive is no longer a luxury. Mac OS X for personal computing systems will be released later this year. Existing installations of Mac OS 8.1 operating successfully in the Cornell environmentremain viable, and this may be the better choice for systems at the low end of these recommendations. This is, however, a dated environment. Dropping below this memory recommendation will impact performance, especially in conjunction with a slower processor.