Recommendations for operating system - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

28 Aug 2006

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Subject: Re: Recommendations for  operating system
   From: "Hans Franke"  <Hans.Franke at siemens.com>
   Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006  14:19:15 +0200
     To: Choctaw Bob  <bob099 at centurytel.net>,
 "General Discussion: On-Topic and  Off-Topic Posts"     <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
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 Now,  coming back to systems, I still give out
P166-P233MMX systems to
people.  A good configuration to run Office I found would  be:

P200
64 MB RAM
4+ Gig drive as C with all  Apps
4+ Gig drive partitioned as Z/D where Z is a 512 MB dedicated  swap.
1 DVD drive (if possible a writer at 40  Euro)
WindowsXP
Office2003
Firefox
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I suggest Warp connect in the blue box with win3.1 support built in. It  
would be pretty snappy on a P200 and there's plenty of apps to run, although  
later developed programs want version 4.0 however. You can use IBM peer on  3.0 to 
share files, and if you use a 3com NIC, NDIS drivers are available.  
Installing fixpaks is not that bad either if you use some of the free fixpak  
installation programs. Google for OS/2 device driver pak online and you can see  what 
kind of hardware has drivers for it. 