Recommended Intel Platform

[Joseph M. Dusio]

I've only just learned of the Mercury project, and am excited to try
it out.  I've downloaded the Cygnus CYGWIN-32 environment and the
source for Mercury.  Building Mercury seems to take quite a bit of
time.  In general, the CYGWIN environment seems quite slow, so my
compilations are moving slowly.

When Mercury is used on an Intel/Windows-95 computer what is the
typical or recommended configuration of

1) processor type and speed
2) RAM

Thank you,
    Joe Dusio