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echo: os2
to: Herbert Rosenau
from: Will Honea
date: 1999-10-05 01:51:00
subject: OS/2 on old hardware

Herbert Rosenau wrote to Nick Andre on 10-03-1999

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

OS/2 2.1 would boot in 2 meg, 3.0 required just about 3 - been there,
done that.  Some people used command line shells (TSHELL, for example)
to run BBS's with 4 meg.

Will Honea 
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