-=> Quoting Steffen Offermann to Eric Rusk <=-

 SO> Eric Rusk wrote in a message to tom schlangen:

 SO> [EMX for OS/2]
 
 ER> Well, I have upgraded to a 486dx/33 with 8 meg ram.  So it
 ER> shouldn't be all that slow, should it?

 SO> 8 MB are not sufficient! You should _at_ _least_ have 20 MB to
 SO> use EMX. A 486/33 is a bit weak, too. I would not reccommend
 SO> using EMX on a 486 processor at all. However - RAM is more
 SO> important than the cpu. You should upgrade your memory as soon
 SO> as possible. I have a Pentium/133 with 64 MB of RAM, and I
 SO> believe (from experience) that, if you want to do serious C++
 SO> programming, you should at least have 32 MB.

I ran EMX v0.9a and b on a 486/66 with 8 megs with no problem.  I was
only using C, not C++.

A tip: run gcc at idle time priority, this way the system will be
more responsive while it is busy compiling.  I use a program called
priority.exe from fmutils.zip to start cmd.exe at priority 1 0, then do
all my compiling from that process.

I also ran cmd.exe as my WPS instead of PMSHELL.EXE

SET RUNWORKPLACE=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE, this makes Warp FLY in 8 megs!

Of course, more memory helps, but it will work.

Phil Crown
pcrown{at}airmail.net
http://web2.airmail.net/pcrown/

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