'90s era PC recommendation.

[Grant Taylor]

On 05/07/2018 01:12 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
> Unless you have a old copy of DOS, what OS can you get for the OLD 
> MACHINES?

I have multiple copies of older OSs that will run on the machine.

DOS / Windows:  MS-DOS, PC-DOS, DR-DOS, FreeDOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 
9x, Windows NT 3.x, Windows NT 4
Novell:  NetWare 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, maybe 6.x
OS/2:  Warp 3, Warp 4
Linux:  (multiple)
FreeBSD:  (multiple)
SCO OpenServer  5.<something>, UnixWare 7.<something>

I'd like to get my hands on Banyan Vines and / or Artisoft LANtastic to 
play with things.  }:-)

I don't know how much memory is installed in the machine.  But i would 
expect that various versions of all of the above can install and run on 
a machine with between 16 MB and 64 MB.  As for drive, anything between 
200 MB and 2 GB will likely work.

I know that I've had Linux installed on the machine before.

There are a LOT of options on such machines.

One thing that I really like is the fact that it's a combination of PCI 
and EISA bus.  Which means that I can mess with just about any add-on / 
expansion card that I want to.  —  Save for MCA and VLB.  Though I doubt 
that I'll want to play with those cards.



-- 
Grant. . . .
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