Subj : Y2K POWER FAILURE?
To   : Tony Simmons
From : Fred Kantor
Date : Tue Sep 19 2000 05:45 am

MT> I did salvage a lot of 486 computers that were being
MT> tossed out at work

MA> I heard those can be put to use if you dump DOS and
MA> Windows and install Linux.

TS> They run Win 3.1 just fine.

Or could be used with OS/2 4.

For a while, I was running OS/2 4 on a 386/33 with 8 MB RAM.

The only things which ran slowly were large manuals in HTML,
because a browser was trying to hold all the resulting display
graphics in memory.

I upgraded to a Pentium 133, 64 MB RAM, 512K L2, which I'm still
using. I have OS/2 on drive D: (what I usually use), DOS and NT 4
(updated with MS's Y2K CD) on C: (an HP 9100i CD read/write/rewrite
drive came with software which required "Windows"), and Linux 
(Caldera) in its own two partitions, using IBM's Boot Manager.

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