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- From: ileicht@jarthur.claremont.edu (Spiff)
- Subject: Re: TCP/IP for OS/2
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.003739.5284@muddcs.claremont.edu>
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- Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
- References: <keyhazu00iUyQ5bXxL@andrew.cmu.edu> <JR5051.92Nov6212457@cehp17.coewl.cen.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov7.160237.23925@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 00:37:39 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov7.160237.23925@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
- >In <JR5051.92Nov6212457@cehp17.coewl.cen.uiuc.edu> jr5051@cehp17.coewl.cen.uiuc.edu (Them that be them) writes:
- >
- >>>TCP/IP for os/2 is also made by IBM. If you have access to the
- >>>educational discounts, you get the whole deal for less than $300. This
- >>>software is pretty good (although LaMail, the mail reader is below
- >>>average) and IBM really does take care of the users well. The whole deal
- >>>includes X, TCP/IP (with lots of adaptors supported). I would recommend
- >>>it to anyone.
- >
- >> Do you know if slip is supported? Thanks!
- >
- >Yes.
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- Works fine.
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- >
- >Now for my question. If I wanted to run OS/2 2.0, SLIP, X, and NFS on
- >a 386-25 with only 6 MB of memory, just how unbearably slow would it
- >be?
- >
- >[Probably a silly question, but I can dream, right?]
- >
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- My swap file hovers around 8mb when running TCPIP, and Xwindows. Its making
- me think about what needs to be done to get myself upgraded from 8 to 12 megs.
-
- >--
- >"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- > in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
- >------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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