Hello Bruce!
In a message to Chris Martin  Bruce Clark wrote:
BC> -=> Quoting Chris Martin to Thomas Carson <=-
BC> Concerning the quotes below: It's a good thing my version of
BC> Ensemble 2.01 can't read. It doesn't know any better then
BC> to run on a 12MHz 286 with 1meg of RAM. I don't know where
BC> all of these 386 only posts keep coming from. Someone must
Nope, the computers can't read, therefore it WILL run, although
very slow on a lot of the processes, and uses a LARGE swap file.
See the below excerpt, regarding the operation of v1.2 on xt/at
class machines, which is what he is running. The ver 1.2 will run
quite well on a 286 with 1-2MB memory, and not miss a lick. V2
DOES require a more powerfull processor to take advantage of many
of the improvements, though it WILL run on a lesser machine, just
not real quick.
 TC> Do you have a shareware version of GEOS that would work on a 286 wit
 TC> Dos
 TC> 6.2 on it?  I would love to try it out.
 TC>      The reason that I thought GEOS would work with my 286 is because
 TC>      I am using AOL for DOS which has the GEOS interface and it works
 TC>      fine...I will continue my search for a shareware/trial version
 TC>      of GEOS...next stop will be AOL's file areas.
 CM> If you can't find a demo or the testdrive version of GW1.2, try
 CM> to grab a used copy of the ver1.2. It WILL run on a 286 just
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  CM> hunky-dory. It will even run on an XT class machine. The newer
 CM> demo must be of the ver 2.0, and it does require at lest a 386.
  CM> interface. I personally can attest to the fact of ver 1.2 running
 CM> on an xt, up, as I did run it on one, then upgraded to a 286, and
 CM> watched it fly. Then came the 386sx, and ver 2.0, followed by a
 CM> 486dx4-120 and ver 2.01....seems really impressive on this class
BC> I repeat, I'm using Geos Ensemble 2.01 on a 286 w/ 1 meg RAM.
Great. Windows 3.1 _WILL_ run on a 286 with 1-2M too, but again,
NOT real well. The recomendation was to find a copy of v1.2,
since it should be real inexpensive, and will run quite well on
the class of machine he has, especially since he was looking to
use the AOL-GEOS interface. The rest, about the more powerful
machines, was just anecdotal.
Later
Chris Martin
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