5 Aug
1999
5 Aug
'99
12:26 p.m.
Hi Jeff,
You want some advice, eh? Okay. These beasties
support
CGA or EGA (you set this up from the setup screen...
Thanks, at least I know now not to fry an MDA monitor checking this out.... ;-)
....and AFAIK, I'm pretty sure they support 1mb
simms. (the
later models had VGA, and supported more memory).
That would make sense, wasn't the '286 limited to a total of 4Mb physical RAM
(unless you added EMS)?
....worked fin for most MS-DOS appz.
Yep, the fact that they're '286 based isn't a problem to me. I just want to
use
them under DOS for running stuff like TurboBASIC etc.
How do you make it boot? Ha. You have to have either:
3Com
3+Start server software, or 3+Open Start (for OS/2 LanMan)....
Hmm, I was contemplating setting up OS/2 Warp on one of my machines....don't
have LanManager though. :-(
I think I still have all of this stuff somewhere, ifn
you
want it....
I'll contact you off the list about this.
....The only problem is, you'll need to dedicate a
PeeCee
just to run the boot services (and whatever other network
services you want)....
Well, I was thinking about having a play with networking....one of the reasons
I dug the 3Com units out. :-)
TTFN - Pete.
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