[Tutor] Re: Tutor digest, Vol 1 #546 - 5 msgs

[jennifer l doering]

Hi,

> Hi everyone,
> I just loaded 1.5.2 on to my old IBM Thinkpad(486, 20MB RAM, Windows 95)and it is running
> at a snails pace. To open IDLE takes approx. 35 seconds and the command-line is only slightly
> faster and once open, it's no better.

It might be something with your computer or something else in Windows
eating up memory.  I ran python (both command line and IDLE) on a TI
Extensa laptop with 8mb of memory for awhile.  It certainly didn't take
half a minute to load, though.

Pax,
Jen