Installation and Operation of Your Desktop Fractal Design System

This chapter describes the installation and operation of desktop fractal design system. The desktop fractal design system has been written to run on an IBM PC with an enhanced graphics adapter and 640 K of random access memory. It is found that while it is not necessary for the PC to have a hard disk drive, the system runs more efficiently off one. The system also runs on IBM-compatible PCs. The system also prefers to run on 80286 and 80386 processors at fast clock speeds up to 25 MHz. It does not need a math coprocessor. The system appears to run well on the Hyundai 80286 and the Everex 80386 PCs. The desktop fractal design system comes on a disk, which is write-protected. This prevents from writing over or erasing the systems files by accident. For the system to run correctly, it needs to be installed in such a way that the computer can write to the directory from which the system is invoked. This means that if one is going to run it off a floppy disk drive, then one must copy the system onto a disk which is not write-protected.