05-08-14 16:56 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: U'u On A 16YO PC   
      
    HG> @MSGID: <536CB085.12891.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    HG> In a message dated 05-08-14, Paul Quinn said to Ed Vance:   
      
    HG> Hi Ed,   
   GA Holger,   
      
    PQ>On Mon, 05 May 14, you wrote to me:   
      
    EV> Could U'u 12.04 be installed on a PC with 48Megabytes (Not GB) RAM?   
    EV> The HDD in the PC is smaller than 2GB?   
      
    PQ>Nope.  It needs roughly 1Gb these days, though... just checking a vBox   
   -snip-   
    HG> But OS/2 Warp 4 could easily be installed on that machine. The   
    HG> operating system requires only 120 Mb including GUI. Then an   
    HG> upgrade to FP 12 (FixPak) will upgrade the os without requiring   
    HG> more HD space. There are later upgrades (FP's) but I have not   
    HG> installed them because they will require another file system.   
   -snip-   
    HG> Everything can be installed on FAT partitions and DOS programs   
    HG> will work very well under OS2-DOS. There's also a WIN-OS2   
    HG> included but it's like the old Windows v3.11.   
      
    HG> The machine I'm writing this on is a 486DX2/80MHz with 16 Mb   
    HG> RAM. This is at the moment the Fidonet BBS machine while I keep   
    HG> updating another with hardware partly delivered by Paul.   
      
   Thanks, at least I know now it could be used for OS/2.   
      
   What about ECC on it?   
      
   My Win95 box has a Pentium 133.   
      
   ... No smoke or sparks!  ...Hmmm...  Must be a software problem then...   
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