12 Aug 15 07:05, you wrote to Holger Granholm:   
      
    HG>> But I haven't yet given up although I use my older equipment for   
    HG>> OS/2.   
      
    RN> I'm of the mind right now that I'll have to see if my machine with a   
    RN> 486 CPU still works.   
      
   way back when, i started my Warp 3 Connect on a 486-33... then i moved the   
   drives to a PII-200 (full blooded, not celeron) and then a PII-300... at some   
   point, i tried a PII-450 (celeron) but OS/2 was very very very s.l.o.w. on   
   it... it took over an hour to boot up where i could safely shut it down again   
   and that took a long while, too... i didn't try a celeron ever again after   
   that... at another point in time, something happened to the boot drive so i   
   reloaded Warp 3 Connect on it again... that was on the PII-300... several   
   years later, the machine ate itself... i was able to recover by cloning the   
   drives over and installing then with eCS on a PIII-800... i'm pretty sure that   
   Warp 3 Connect would have worked just fine on this new hardware if i had been   
   able to just move the drives over... installing it was another matter due to   
   available memory and needing certain updated drivers that i didn't have access   
   to at the time... eCS was the best way to go and certainly after Warp 4   
   refused to install...   
      
   basically, i'm saying that you shouldn't have to go all the way back to a 486   
   to install either of the Warps... a PII should be far enough back... just   
   watch the HD size and remember that 2Gig partitions are needed up to a certain   
   point... i've got four of them on one drive and two 10Gig partitions on   
   another drive... the 2Gig partitions were done before i found the 2GBFIX TSR   
   utility for DOS sessions... now that i have it, i've been planning on   
   adjusting things to have fewer drive letters and having larger partitions all   
   over... i'd love to put six HDs in and move each partition to a dedicated HD   
   but that means needing another PCI PATA IDE card which i don't know if i can   
   find these days... the next step is either a VM or a newer dedicated system   
   with SATA drives... the 384Meg of RAM is more than enough for the system's   
   usage so that's not anything i'm worried about ;)   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
   ... Second star to the right and straight on till morning...   
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