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echo: dbridge
to: Jesse C----
from: Nick Andre
date: 2021-07-06 23:53:00
subject: Re: Request

On 6 Jul 21  23:30, Jesse C---- said the following to Nick Andre:

JC> running on an Ebay IBM PS/1 486-40 MB with 8megs ram (included in auction)
JC> has a 512M SSD CF ISA Card  and a 3com 509? guess thats right.
JC> The riser card came from Russia (thought that was cool).
JC> Got the case from ebay too its a PS/Value case (so I can use a normal flopp

I can't remember if you wrote back if you were able to load a lot of that DOS
stuff into high-memory or EMS... as in, allocate some EMS pages with EMM386
and SET DBOVREMS=Y.

JC> Also: pretty sure the 486-40 would have a tough time with windows. 3.0 mig
JC> work but thats not even a real multitasker. 

Windows 3.1 or 3.11 for Workgroups (I forget)... should be better than 3.0.

Windows NT 3.5 or 4.0 should run in 8 megs of memory...

Nick
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