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
31 Dec
31 Dec
8:59 p.m.
Hotze wrote:
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).
Any Windows 3.x is going to be *very* slow on an XT. There is (IMHO) a
tremendous difference between 3.0 and 3.1 not just the maintenance
release that the version number suggests. As to 3.1 running (walking
;-) on an XT most of them are ruled out because there is no support for
CGA, Hercules or MDA, I can't recall off the top of my head if it even
supported EGA but I think it did.
1 Jan
1 Jan
5:18 a.m.
Windows 3.0 would run on an XT with CGA and 640k RAM. I know because I
did it. Unfortunately, I threw out my box and docs years ago. (Still
have the disks, though.)
Windows 3.1: The box says it needs a 286+ (386sx recommended), 640k+256k
extended, EGA/VGA/SVGA/XGA/8514A/Hercules. I know because I'm looking at
the box as I type.
tremendous difference between 3.0 and 3.1 not just the
maintenance
New features in 3.1 (from the Getting Started book):
Truetype fonts
OLE
New File Manager
Drag and Drop
Online Tutorial
Printing Enhancements
New Multimedia Features
(media player, sound recorder, wave/MIDI in control panel)
Additional Features and Enhancements
(4 pages including improved MS-DOS app support, Network enhancements,
new desktop features-including screen savers, other minor stuff)
Performance Improvements
(progman uses less memory, winfile is faster, dos app in a box better
on a 386, printing faster/more efficient, Disk caching more
integrated.)
6:21 a.m.
Regarding interesting OS's that run on XT's:
Amstrad shipped a little GUI with it's PC1512's and 1640's called GEM. It
requires two
360K drives and 640K, I think. Cliff Lawson has it in a file area off of
his Amstrad web
page
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/cliff.lawson/info.htm
It's very similar looking to GEOS for the c64.
Kirk Scott
scottk5(a)ibm.net
If you're talking about the GEM I think you're talking about. Wasn't it
licensed from Digital Research? GEM is also the basis for the 16 & 32-bit
Atari's. I just can't remember at this point if the PC version ran on DOS,
or if it required CP/M to run.
Zane
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6:50 a.m.
On Thu, 1 Jan 1998, Zane H. Healy wrote:
The GEM I have runs on DOS. (I also have a copy of GEM for the Tandy2000,
but my T2000 doesn't have enough RAM to run it.) Yes, it was Digital
Research.
Back in my Desktop Publishing days, I ran Ventura Publisher under runtime
GEM on top of DOS. I also seriously looked at GEMDraw, but rather picked
a new drawing package that ran on Windows 2.11 called CorelDraw :-)
Little did I know that years later Corel would buy Ventura Publisher.
ttyl
srw
Regarding
interesting OS's that run on XT's:
If you're talking about the GEM I think you're talking about. Wasn't it
licensed from Digital Research? GEM is also the basis for the 16 & 32-bit
Atari's. I just can't remember at this point if the PC version ran on DOS,
or if it required CP/M to run. 
7:55 a.m.
Regarding interesting OS's that run on XT's:
Amstrad shipped a little GUI with it's PC1512's and 1640's called GEM. It
requires two
360K drives and 640K, I think. Cliff Lawson has it in a file area off of his Amstrad web
page
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/cliff.lawson/info.htm
It's very similar looking to GEOS for the c64.
Kirk Scott
scottk5(a)ibm.net
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