Development, round II

i ran version 3.0 on a 386dx40 and wasnt bad, although it took almost 10 minutes to restore an archive! i had it running on a dx2-80 with 8 meg, and was pretty snappy. it was interesting to place the swap file on the second hard drive, so you could hear when vm was being used. Ive experimented with version 4.0 but setting up my nic and a pnp soundblaster was difficult. thankfully, there are plenty of os2 advocates out there in comp.sys.os2.* that can help out. os2 trivia: os2 had a START command way before BILLGe thought of it! david In a message dated 98-01-31 10:36:27 EST, you write: << I ran OS/2 v. 2 on a friends system (and helped him with the memory upgrade from 16 to 32 meg). I also ran the Rexx gopher server on version 3 (Warp) on a system with 16 Megs of RAM. I never ran Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 on either machine so I cannot make a direct comparison (Win NT 3.51 was running on the latter machine long enough to allow setting up the OS/2 installation). We also played around with the Voice control on a beta release of Merlin (thanks for reminding me of the code name) but that machine was eventually pressed into service running NT (I never saw it after that). The advice of "you should have more than 4 MB RAM" was taken from my friend (who is still quite the OS/2 zealot) and I thought that I had read it in the paperback version of the OS/2 FAQ as well - but I could easily be mistaken about that latter source. I am quite glad to hear that your performance was so good with only 4 MB - great OS isn't it? >>