x86 OS's - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 Dec 1998

Thanks for all of your replies. I have tried a number of these already.

Zane H. Healy wrote:
...
 QNX - There is a free demo version, about all you can
do is surf the web
with it
      though.  The demo boots from floppy. 

It's very good for what it does. The QNX Neutrino kernel is to form the
basis of AmigaOS 5. Check out http://www.amiga.com if you don't believe me.
Unfortunately the demo needs 8Mb of continuous memory, on top of the 640k.
The machine I'm buying only has a total of 8Mb.

...
 GEOS - Runs on top of DOS, the company currently
supporting it, had been
       providing some sort of demo version for it.  It looks really great
       actually, and come to think of it I believe my above mentioned 486 has
...
        a copy on it somewhere (probably still on a
Linux partition) that I
       downloaded to try a year or so ago.  I'd forgotten about it. 

I've got this running on my Pentium 2. If I can get some cheap 386 I'd
install this use them as simple word processors. Perhaps also sticking a
Pentium logo and "designed for Windows" on the monitor just to fool everyone
;)

...
        Unfortunatly they no longer support the really
low end systems, I can't
...
        remember if they still support the 286 or not.

Runs on 286 according to the system specs.
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