Development, round II - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

2 Feb 1998

Actually, I think that OS/2 prices'll drop soon.  As for Linux, there are
several "minimal distrobutions" avaible.  One is called "Mini-Linux"
which
includes X-Windows, several games, a word processor, etc. as well as full
Linux support, and runs under MS-DOS FAT 16 or FAT 32, as well as OS/2's
system, no repartitioning necessary.  It also is in 4 .zip files, each under
1.44MB for diskettes.  Another is called "Monkey", which includes Navigator,
X-Windows, all kinds of stuff, and once again, runs without a partition.
Each take up no more than 30MB.  I haven't gotten either working.  If anyone
can help me.... anyway, they're both first class operating systems.
    Ciao,

Tim D. Hotze
-----Original Message-----
From: Philip.Belben(a)powertech.co.uk &lt;Philip.Belben(a)powertech.co.uk&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Monday, February 02, 1998 8:43 PM
Subject: Re[2]: Development, round II

...
 > > >BTW  What is Warp?  Is it the OS/2
windowing system?  If so, why would I
...
 > > >want to use it at all, let alone on a
286? ;-)
> >
> > Warp is OS/2v3.  You couldn't use it on a 286, but if you had, say, a
> > 486/33 -- do pardon me for mentioning a nine-year-old part -- it would
> > begin to be worth playing with.  My copy of Warp is still very much to
> > hand, and I think anyone who can scrounge up an appropriate computer
should
...
    run it (for a while) if they have the opportunity,
because it's a real
 education. 
 Runs just peachy on my old 386/25.  Faster than Windows 3.1 did, not
 that that's a compliment.  I will admit that I prefer it, though of
 course all of my high-end machines run Linux. 
I seem to be reading a lot of good things about OS/2 here apart from the
price.  Since it looks as though I may have found a source of decent
hard disk drives for my Compaq LTE Lite 20 machines I shall seriously
consider OS/2 for one of them.  The other one, of course, will run
either Linux or Free BSD - Linux seems to have the vote so far.

Thankyou everyone.

Philip.