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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: DISKLESS WORKSTATIONS
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.022430.12296@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 02:24:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug20.112022.968@nuscc.nus.sg> eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (TAN JIN MENG) writes:
- >Sorry I wasn't clear here. I just wanted to know how I can estimate the
- >memory requirements for a minimal OS/2.
-
- Ah, well, yes, placing CMD.EXE in the PROTSHELL line would, in fact,
- result in a minimal OS/2 system.
-
- >There are 2 possible uses.
- >One is in a hospital environment where you have multiple beds
- >and you have both data acquisition front ends and a compute
- >back end. The app is in real time expert system diagnosis.
-
- Have you looked at IBM's medical expert system for OS/2, by the way?
-
- >The other is as a Super Compute server for 3D visualisation problems.
- >We're on a "cheap is good" kick here, so I'm investigating something
- >like this. The idea here is to get cheap single board computers with
- >network cards (in the case of the Super Server, we put them into one
- >cabinet) and with a cheap but solid OS as a base.
- >development on the OS/2 platform should be pretty easy too. The
- >environment is familiar and there is (likely) to be a multitude of
- >software (as well as supported hardware) available for this platform.
-
- I can't really recommend a specific approach for a couple reasons.
- One is that there's no clear standout winner right now, the other is
- that there are so many options.
-
- So I'll solicit opinions for you. :-)
-
- Does anyone have advice to offer on this subject? Anyone with similar
- setups?
-
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