Eric Rusk wrote in a message to tom schlangen:

[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?

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

If you intend to use the C language only (no C++ features), you
might get happy with Watcom C++, but 8 MB of RAM are not enough,
anyway. 12 MB might do, but I would reccommend 16 MB or more,
unless you own enough good books to read while the compiler is
busy ;-)

Tschuess,
  Steffen 
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