Lawrence Garvin wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
 LG> Following up a message from Nick Andre to Roy J. Tellason:
RJ>  BS> Is it possible to install Warp3.0 as strictly a command-line
RJ>  BS> OS on an 8 Meg Ram 486 or even 386 ?
RJ> I too would be interested in knowing if this would work.  I've got
RJ> a few 386 boards around here that might be put to good use,  
RJ> networked with the rest my stuff,  but I sure don't have enough vga 
RJ> monitors to be able to run one each of them!
 LG> FWIW, Roy, I did successfully run a multi-node (two) system
 LG> on a 386DX/40 w/8MB RAM using TShell for several months.
I'm going to have to get a hold of that TShell program and take a look at it. 
I did get FileBar and stick it on that machine and don't care for it too 
much...
 LG> Unfortunately, long before I understood how to use the 
 LG> character based networking interface, I gave it up to go back 
 LG> to the GUI and upgraded to a 5x86/133.
That's what *this* box is,  a 5x86/133.
 LG> Now that I know how to use the character-based GUI, I'm giving 
 LG> some consideration to firing up that 386DX/40 again.
I should probably mention that the 386dx40 seems to have some sort of a cache 
problem,  that it's disabled in cmos,  and that this probably accounts for it 
running somewhere around the performance level of a 386sx16 or so...
 LG> (Note: For those pondering my previous message -- that 386 
 LG> could be figured into the procession, if anybody thinks it can 
 LG> serve a purpose.)
It's an interesting problem,  and I'll be looking forward to seeing what 
sorts of replies your post generates.  I'm wondering myself what sorts of 
distributio of resources might be appropriate to various tasks,  particularly 
if I can use one or more of those 386dx33 motherboards I've got around here 
(which have yet to be tested,  I've been busy with other stuff,  though one 
of them at least appears to come up okay).
For example,  you seemed to be inclined to put the faster machine with the 
fileserver and let the dx2/66 handle all the comm stuff.  Why is that?
email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com 
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