The minimum configuration allows installation of Release 5.00 and work with small components. It is a limited configuration that is not recommended for anything other than small drawings. Faster Duron or Celeron class machines will be fine as well. When working with images, we suggest at least a 500 MHz Pentium III class machine with 256 megabytes of RAM running Windows 2000. This is excessive for small images but necessary for mid-sized images.
Images are computationally intensive.
A fast graphics card must be installed when performing 3D rendering in terrain windows. This is thousands of dollars less than the cost of proprietary workstations that are currently used for such work. For very large tasks or large images, consider investing in a dual or quad processor machine. NT and 2000 are much more reliable with modern amounts of RAM than 16-bit Windows systems. Manifold System Release 5.00 was developed on PIII and Athlon machines running at 500Mhz or less in order to avoid impractical expectations about machine performance.