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|  Message 211  |
|  Jeff Binkley to John Kelly  |
|  RE: UMM.. PCBOARD NATURAL  |
|  29 Dec 13 04:31:00  |
 JK>MSGID: 2:362/6 00080b7e JK>-> Maybe you could find an OS/2 Warp 4 installation kit = 2 CDs JK>-> somewhere. JK>If somebody makes ISO images and posts an Emule link, maybe I can ... JK>-> There are however a couple of fixpaks to be considered but I do JK>-> have them. So far I haven't needed them. JK>Those too. JK>-> JK>The only solution would be to run old hardware, CPU <= 350mhz. JK>-> But JK>that's hard to find nowdays, even on Ebay. JK>-> That is a good solution. The OS/2 Warp 5 operating systems JK>-> requires very little processor power and occupies only 120 Mb on JK>-> the HD. That means that you have plenty of space even in a 1 Gb JK>-> partition. JK>Not so good really. Motherboards of that vintage are 20 years old JK>now. That exceeds the life expectancy of the electrolytic capacitors JK>onboard. They can be replaced at small cost, if you can do the job JK>yourself, but it requires steady hands and good eyesight. I solved the problem by running OS/2 WARP as a guest operating system under VMware's VM workstation product. I've got OS/2 WARP 3 running PCBoard sitting on a Windows 2008 R2 server as a guest VM. I no longer have to worry about hardware. I only support telnet access. Jeff CMPQwk 1.42-21 9999 Hope and change = $1T deficit and 10%+ unemployment ..... --- PCBoard (R) v15.3/M 10 * Origin: (1:226/600) |
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