From: Allan J. Ballard (aballard_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sun May 26 2002 - 16:08:20 EDT
I loaded OS/2 v3 and CICS for OS/2 on a 386 GRID (Tandy corp) pc with 8 Mb
RAM and maybe a 200Mb drive at best.
Still runs like a champ.
At 10:47 PM 5/10/02 -0700, Lee Laniear wrote:
>I still have a 701C and when it's not serving as a door stop I sometimes
use it to run OS/2 (and even NT).
>True it doesn't have a CD but I use a Trantor Parallel Port interface with
an external CD and it has loaded
>Version 4 of OS/2 without any problem. BTW, it also works with Warp
e-business server. Using the parallel
>port CD it has only taken about 40 minutes to install OS/2. The fix pack
installs are pretty fast.
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>Lee
>
>
>>>So, what's the best version of OS/2 to run on a 701C (486/75,
>>>40 MB RAM max, no CD)? And how much HD space will it take up?
>>
>>Version 3 or 4 will run. The amount of HD space depends on what features
you
>>install. I think the minimum with networking for Warp 4 is around 100 mb.
>>Without a CD to install from, you will need another machine with a CD
that can
>>be set up to network or you can use a null-modem cable, but it takes a few
>>hours to install that way.
>>
>>I would go with version 4, because I think there are more utilities for it,
>>and the interface is nicer to me.
>>
>>
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>
>Lee Laniear
>laniear_at_attglobal.net OR
>laniear_at_alum.mit.edu
>
>
>
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