| MATLAB Installation Guide for Windows |
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System Requirements
Note
For the most up-to-date information about system requirements, see the support area at the MathWorks Web site (www.mathworks.com).
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- Pentium, Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium IV, Intel Xeon, AMD Athlon or Athlon XP based personal computer
- Microsoft Windows 98 (original and Second Edition), Windows Millennium Edition (ME), Windows NT 4.0 (with Service Pack 5 for Y2K compliancy or Service Pack 6a), Windows 2000, or Windows XP.
- CD-ROM drive (for installation from CD)
- 128 MB RAM minimum, 256 MB RAM recommended
- Disk space varies depending on size of partition and installation of online help files. The MathWorks Installer will inform you of the hard disk space requirement for your particular partition. For example, a partition with a 4K byte cluster size requires 120 MB for MATLAB only and 260 MB for MATLAB with online help files.
- 8-bit graphics adapter and display (for 256 simultaneous colors). A 16, 24 or 32-bit OpenGL capable graphics adapter is strongly recommended.
Other recommended items include
- Microsoft Windows supported graphics accelerator card, printer, and sound card
- Microsoft Word 8.0 (Office 97), Office 2000, or Office XP is required to run the MATLAB Notebook. Note: Office 95 is no longer supported.
- TCP/IP is required on all platforms when using a license server.
- Some license types require a license server running FLEXlm 8.0d, which is provided by the MathWorks installer
One of the following is required to build your own MEX-files:
- Compaq Visual Fortran 5.0, 6.1, or 6.5
- Microsoft Visual C/C++ version 5.0, 6.0, or 7.0
- Borland C/C++ version 5.0 or 5.02
- Borland C++Builder version 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, or 6.0
- WATCOM version 10.6 or 11
- Lcc 2.4 (bundled with MATLAB)
Netscape Navigator 4.0 and above or Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 and above is required. Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view and print the MATLAB online documentation in PDF format.
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