Hi Linda,

 LP> Video card (of course), mouse, Pentium, SCSI w/CD-ROM & ZIP with
 LP> potential for other SCSI stuff later, SparQ, maybe sound later, want to
 LP> put in a lan to connect this unit with my old one (which can't load
 LP> OS/2).  Want to be able to load all drivers & still have lots of memory
 LP> left (have 32 at the moment) to multitask.

 LP> At the moment, I use Reconfig to boot different DOS configurations
 LP> because if I had a universal set up I would not be able to run hardly
 LP> anything.

 LP> Is this enough info?

Its actually very little.......;-( Ok, here are some specific questions -

  1. What Make & Model of Video card (and how much memory does it have)?

  2. What Display MODE (1024x768x65536 colours) do you want to run it in? 

  3. What Make & Model of Mouse (Serial,PS/2, etc)?

  4. What Type of Pentium CPU (Basic Pentium 100Mhz, PII 450, etc).

  5. What Make & Model of SCSI Controller?

  6. What Make & Model of CDROM?

  7. You WILL need to obtain one of the Fixpacks to be able to use the ZIP!

  8. Whats a SparQ???

  9. What make & model of LAN card (I use 3Com 3C9905B's here)?

 10. 32Mb memory is fine for most things, but as usual more is better...;-)
With 32Mb ALL your drivers should be able to load, plus OS/2, and still have
memory to spare. Once you start running Applications that maychange though...

As an example, the BBS here runs Warp 3 + FP39 on an AMD-K6-300 with 32Mb, and 
that loads the Digiboard Intelligent serial card (8 ports) driver, SCSI Card
driver (Adaptec), 2 Drives, 6 Disc CD Changer, starts up Networking, TCP/IP
Server tasks (BinkD), background mail processing tasks, and 4 lines of the BBS 
all running and STILL has about 4MB RAM free. It really depends on what
applications you use, something like Netscape will chew though 8Mb RAM by
itself just to load, without even thinking about connecting to anything...
Fortunately the Swapping under OS/2 is very good so if I ever ran Netscape on
the BBS it would hadly be nopticed...

I hope this helps...........pk.


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