However, the trend is for software companies to start using the win 95 operating system and NT system only. This trend is not industry wide yet. If you do not have win 95, there is no need to purchase it. I have chosen to do all my personal work using a win 3.11 operating system although at my office I have access to a win 95 system also. I do find that recently I have begun to spend more time on my win 95 system because I have started to use some programs that are not made for win 3.1x.
Graphics programs are memory hogs.
Some programs like Adobe Photoshop suggest 32 megs of memory. Up to a point, the more memory the better. One cannot have too much hard drive space. In addition, graphic files can tend to be large. If one is using win 3.1 or 3.11, I suggest partitioning it in to 255 meg partitions and then one or more partitions over 300 meg.