6 Dec
2007
6 Dec
'07
3:22 p.m.
On Thursday 06 December 2007 12:53, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 6 Dec 2007 at 1:52, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
Maybe. I was running a "5x86/133" in another box, I just need to figure out
what jumper setting would allow that one to work...
I'd originally planned to put OS/2 in this
box. Now I'm lots less
enthused about that OS than I was at one time, so I dunno what I'm gonna
do with it. Thoughts on this?
Can you get a DX4/100 to run in the slot? There are versions of Linux that will work; as well as
other operating
systems if you don't like OS/2 (I do like it better than a lot of other
operating systems).
It's not that I dislike OS/2, it's just that I'm not as fired up as I was
about it at one point. I have a copy of "Warp Connect Blue", which means
the networking stuff is included and you don't need DOS or Windows to get it
to run that software, but that's only version 3 and v4 was supposed to be
very different. Then there are all those fixpacks, not just for the OS
itself but for all this other stuff and I think those had to be applied in a
certain order, too. It made a lot of sense when I was still running my BBS,
since just about all of the software I was running also had OS/2 versions,
but I took that down a couple of years ago, and have no pressing need to run
DOS or win 3.1 type apps any more, so...
How about PC-MOS? MP/M-86 with GEM? UCSD Pascal?
Dunno why I'd want any of these -- they run any special apps? I'd like it
better if I could fill the RAM up, and also get the fastest CPU in there
that the box would support. But I'm in no hurry, either. :-)
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