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to: Albert Sodyl
from: Jack Stein
date: 1999-11-15 08:50:28
subject: OS/2 2.1 IS dead.

Albert Sodyl wrote in a message to Herbert Rosenau:

 HR> Hardware requirement for

 HR>                 WARP 3          WARP 4
 HR> CPU             I386            I486 (creeps on 386 too)
 HR> Memory          12 MB           16 MB (with Voice Type 24 or more)
 HR> Disk            250 MB          400 MB          (including swapper.dat)

 AS> That's it, now I can forget about getting Warp 3 or Warp 4.

 AS> I'll stay with the ever crashing OS/2 2.1 :(

Not certain what you are running, but I ran OS/2 2.1 for a couple of years on
a 486/33 with 8 megs.  It ran great, never crashed on me.  I switched to WARP
3 ONLY because IBM gave me a free copy, and it has TCP/IP so works great with
the internet.  WARP 3 ran great on 8 megs also.  Still run it on the same
machine, but now have 20 megs ram, still runs great.  I have WARP 3 BLUE, WARP 
3 CONNECT and WIN95 installed on this machine.  I never use WARP connect, and
am thinking of installing WARP 4 on that partition, but, most people seem to
think WARP 4 would be a bit of a pig on this vintage machine.  They also said
that about WARP 3, but were wrong about that.  My 486 with WARP 3 blue is
faster for many things than my P133 at work with WIN95 on it, and works a hell 
of a lot better.  

Anyway, I would not hesitate to put WARP 3 on a 486/33 with 8 megs.  The
memory is a bit small for real PIG gui apps like Netscape, MR/2 ICE and the
like.  Those monsters need as much ram, video and CPU as you can throw at
them.  128 megs might be enough, a CRAY super computer would be more to there
liking I suspect, but even then, they would stress the system I imagine.

                                              Jack 
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