[WriteLog] Hardware Requirements

[Jerry Flanders]

Hi Toby

On the features page at: http://www.writelog.com/features.htm  requirements 
mention a 100 MHz Pentium, 16MB RAM, and Windows 95.

But anything supporting Windows95 will probably work in a limited way. It 
is only when you need to use options like the sound-card functions that the 
user would need the above machine. The sound-card options (RTTY/PSK31/CW 
decoding, AFSK generation, DVK "spoken" buffers, etc) put more demand on 
the system (which would vary with the combination of options used 
simultaneously).

Somewhere around here I still have a 8MB 40 MHz 386 machine. I believe it 
would work fine under W95 for all WL functions not requiring a sound card, 
but have never put it to the test. It, WL and an external PK232 would 
probably give me everything I actually need for the CW and RTTY modes.

OTOH, a sound card provides a convenient inexpensive way (not necessarily 
the _best_ way) to get lots of modes.

Jerry W4UK

At 13:51 1/6/03 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi guys,
>
>I'm just preparing the presentation abt writelog.
>Because I couldn't find any infos about minimum system
>requirements I would like to ask the writelog users
>who's running writelog on slow machines (486, Pentium I)
>and few MB Ram and how good it's runnig under contest
>conditions ?
>
>What is your experience about the minimum system
>requirements ?
>
>73 Toby, DH1TW
>
>_