Hello Herbert!

(Sun Oct 03 1999) Herbert Rosenau wrote to Nick Andre...

 NA>> Can OS/2 v3 be _manually_ installed on a drive with less than 30
 NA>> meg free?

 HR> No. For that you should install OS/2 1.x. OS/2 1.x would run on each 386
 HR> with 2 MB or more but OS/2 2.x MUST have 8 MB or more

 HR> OS/2 WARP is optimised for I486. It would run on a 386 with 12 MB or
more.

Let's make some clarification:

OS/2 v 1.3 runs on 286s with 2.5M required (4M recommended) for PM
OS/2 v 2.0 runs on 386s with 3M required and 6M recommended
OS/2 v 2.1 runs on 386s with 6M required and 8M recommended
OS/2 v 3.0 runs on 386s with 4M required and 8M recommended
OS/2 v 4.0 runs on 486s with 6M required and 12M recommended (the kernel does
not require 486 but some components reportedly need it)
OS/2 v 4.5 runs on 486s with 12M required and 32M recommended

These facts apply to typical setup with 3xBox/MVDM, HPFS.IFS, PM and WPS (if
applicable) but without MMPM/2, network services and so on...

                                    Sincerely yours - Andrew

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