AG> I can confirm that you CAN compile programs with VAC++ 3.01 on an 8MB 486,
 AG> but crawl is nearer the mark.  C++ does compile eventually, but the visual
 AG> tools don't work. (However, I couldn't get them to work on 24MB machine
 AG> either.)

I've used the visual tools for about a week on this 16MB machine, but it
sure was painful for my hard disk. Swapping was excessive, with my usual
32MB startup swap not being enough. I saw it grow to 70MB once :-) But even
with the constant hard disk activity, the tools worked if I was patient
with it. For example, sometimes I had to hold the mouse button down for
about a minute before Visual Builder would notice that I want to drag an
object :-)

Now that I've used it on a machine with 64MB, I won't even install it on
anything with less than 32MB memory.

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