OS 3.9 on stock Amiga 1200

[barney]

Hi everybody.  Is a basic Amiga 1200 with hard drive fast enough and have enough memory to run OS 3.9?  Thanks.

Barney

[djbase]

No, not really. Add at least 4 MB RAM.

[barney]

Ok, I will have to find some memory for it. Is the 68020 fast enough?

Barney

[Lorraine]

/

[djbase]

barney wrote:
Ok, I will have to find some memory for it. Is the 68020 fast enough?

Barney

Depends on what would you like to do. More power is always better.

[Jiffy]

barney wrote:
Is the 68020 fast enough?

Hardly. It will work, but that's about it. 3.1 is better suited for a vanilla 1200.

I understand you are some kind of masochist?

[AmigaMance]

@barney
 A 68020 is hardly fast enough for... almost anything these days, not only for AOS 3.9. A memory expansion board with some 60ns Fast-RAM on it is a good investment, independently on if you decide to install AOS 3.9 or not, as it will increase system performance and it will allow you to run all those good speed-up patches you can find on Aminet.
 I recommend a 68030 accelerator instead of just a memory board.

[Nostalgiac]

I tried 3.9 on a A2000 with 030@25 and in total 5mb.. shortly after that even with 9mb.

And then I decided to move to an 060 to avoid any more pain :-)

Tom UK

PS: 3.1 was fine with the 030 & 5mb though