What OS to use?

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Name: Doug52392
Date: August 25, 2006 at 13:35:40 Pacific
Subject: What OS to use?
OS: Windows 3.11
CPU/Ram: Forgot
Model/Manufacturer: IBM PS/2

Comment:

Hi, I was wondering what other operating systems I can get very cheap on floppy disks and can run on a very old IBM PS/2 with about 108Mb of hard drive space.

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Response Number 1

Name: dosser
Date: August 25, 2006 at 13:47:48 Pacific
Subject: What OS to use?

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ZipSlack http://www.slackware.com/zipslack/

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Response Number 2

Name: dosser
Date: August 25, 2006 at 13:56:35 Pacific
Subject: What OS to use?

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ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.slackware.com/slackware/zipslack/

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Response Number 3

Name: dosser
Date: August 25, 2006 at 14:13:56 Pacific
Subject: What OS to use?

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IBM OS/2 Version 2.xx

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Response Number 4

Name: dosser
Date: August 26, 2006 at 01:26:33 Pacific
Subject: What OS to use?

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CPU/Ram: Forgot
I can not find this info on google but DSL may work ?
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

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Response Number 5

Name: os2fan2
Date: August 29, 2006 at 00:44:53 Pacific
Subject: What OS to use?

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You could use either an early version of OS/2 or some kind of Windows 3.1/PC-DOS. Alternately, i did manage to squeeze windows 98 into something with 16 MB ram, if you heavily 98lite it.
Try to avoid vista or XP here, especially if you want to run applications.

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What Explorer version to use along with windows 3.11? Why is anybody still using win 3.1? What browser to use? How to use Win 3.1 using Win3x on a P2 at 366mhz w 128	disabling windows95 to install windows31 Hoping to use long filenames!!! Which cards to use I need to use Direct cable connection to get something from 3.1 to 98 Any upgrades for 3.1 to use web effectiv

Response Number 6

Name: Petit Jean
Date: August 29, 2006 at 07:29:19 Pacific
Subject: What OS to use?

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DR-DOS with Windows 3.1,Freedos with Windows 3.0,Windows 95 first ed.(13-1.44 Mb disks)are some other easy to setup operating systems on old computers.Search with Google.Good luck.

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Response Number 7

Name: Stephen Fox
Date: October 14, 2006 at 21:39:01 Pacific
Subject: What OS to use?

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On my out-of-commission TI 4000M I loaded 95 but it wasn't pretty (50MHz & 8MB ram, 320MB HDD). However, 3.11 runs beautifully which it came with. I think 3.11 by itself only uses like 10MB of HDD space.
Stephen Fox
Windows 95 4.00.950 C
DELL LATITUDE CP P5-233 LAPTOP
PENTIUM MMX 233MHz; 128MB RAM

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