On  in a message to Ed Blackman, Phil Crown wrote:

PC> How does this run in 8 megabytes of RAM?  I'm running Cmd.Exe

EB> I'm running Watcom v10.0a very satisfactorily in 8 megs, WITH the WPS.

PC> Good to hear that, I guess it can't be much worse than emx/gnu. :-)

Bear in mind that I ran OS/2 2.0 with the WPS on a 386sx/20 with 5
megs of RAM off a 40 meg hard drive, and found it tolerable.  I
guess I'm not the best person to ask whether something's acceptably
fast enough.  


Ed Blackman

... Poor man's bagpipe:  Stuff cat under arm, pull legs, and chew tail.
--- Blue Wave/Max v2.12 OS/2 [NR]