31 Dec
1997
31 Dec
'97
6:03 a.m.
I'll have to reserve judgement on Win 3.1 as
I've never tried to run it on
an 8088 (I thought Microsoft dropped support for the mode required by the
8088 in Win3.1, though), but OS/2 is right out. It's entire reason for
being is to run on the 286, so an XT won't cut it.
I haven't personally
tried it, but a Japanese company had some XT clone
laptops (OK, luggables) which ran Windows 3.x (Maybe it was 3.0, or 3.1,
there's not to awful much of a difference in my mind).
In addition to Xenix, CP/M-86, Minix, and a variety of
Forths, there are
other Unix clones (Venix, for exmaple), the UCSD P-system, and MP/M-86 (if
you
can find it!). I don't know offhand whether
Concurrent CP/M-86 requires a
286, but I do not believe it does.
Yes, but someone somehow (maybe they just
upgraded the motherboard) used
OS/2 on their XT. (Well, it had an XT case)
Want to see how much people can laugh without getting knocked out/dying?
Call IBM tech support on it.
Tim D. Hotze