Path: utzoo!attcan!sobmips!uunet!samsung!rex!wuarchive!texbell!attctc!ltf From: ltf@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Lance Franklin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: AMIGA Fading? Message-ID: <10216@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> Date: 16 Nov 89 06:11:48 GMT References: <3932@nigel.udel.EDU> <127836@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Reply-To: ltf@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Lance Franklin) Organization: The Unix(R) Connection BBS, Dallas, Tx Lines: 31 In article <127836@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes: >Just to run OS/2 + Presentation Manager you need 6MB of memory. And as >far as I know there isn't a version of MINIXView or something equivalent >for MINIX so that is right out. Hell you can't even *run* OS/2 off floppies. Whoops, slight mistake here...Just to run OS/2 + Presentation Manager, you need at least 2MB of memory...to run WITHOUT SWAPPING you need at least 4MB of memory (just for base OS/2) and if you need to run something like AutoCAD, you really should have at least 6MB (but 8MB is better). I'm presently running OS/2 on a 386 clone with 4meg of memory and a 100mb hard drive. The swap file, when running AutoCAD, typically runs about 1.7mb, so if I had another 2meg, everything would run in memory. However, I could run everything I do now with only 2meg (if I didn't mind the memory swapping hits on my disk drive). Oh, and you can run OS/2 from floppies...but not presentation manager, and minus virtual memory (unless you want to swap on a second floppy)...it's not pretty, and very limited, but it can be done...the installation procedure for OS/2 runs OS/2 off a floppy...it pretty much looks like MS/DOS in that mode. Oh, and I STILL like my Amiga better...now, if it just had virtual memory. :-) Lance -- +-------------------------+ +------------------------------------------+ | Lance T Franklin | | "And all who heard should see them there, | ltf@attctc.DALLAS.TX.US | | And all should cry, Beware! Beware! +-------------------------+ + His flashing eyes, his floating hair!"