3Com 3Stations - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

5 Aug 1999

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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