operating systems

From: John Higginbotham <higginbo_at_netpath.net>
Date: Wed Dec 31 11:58:15 1997

At 10:49 AM 12/31/97 -0700, you wrote:

>I'll have to reserve judgement on Win 3.1 as I've never tried to run it on
>an 8088 (I thought Microsoft dropped support for the mode required by the
>8088 in Win3.1, though), but OS/2 is right out. It's entire reason for
>being is to run on the 286, so an XT won't cut it.

Now if you want to see something really fly, load up Windows 1.03 or 2.0 on
it. Those'll run like lightning on any x86 with 512k or more. I have 1.03
running off a DD 3.5" floppy on a GRiDCASE 3 laptop (XT class, no HD, Gas
Plasma CGA, 512k, DOS in ROM)

>In addition to Xenix, CP/M-86, Minix, and a variety of Forths, there are
>other Unix clones (Venix, for exmaple), the UCSD P-system, and MP/M-86 (if
you
>can find it!). I don't know offhand whether Concurrent CP/M-86 requires a
>286, but I do not believe it does.

Anyone know of a free source for x86 CP/M? or forth? Am I missing
something? Isn't forth a language, not an OS?


- John Higginbotham
- limbo.netpath.net
Received on Wed Dec 31 1997 - 11:58:15 GMT