--- Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Would someone show me their copy of Windows running on an > 8086/8088? > > Hmm. As I recall, Widows 1.0 was pretty bad. I no longer have a > copy. > I do have a copy of DesqView, which I have on occasion run on my > 8088. > It's been a while now. The 8088 machine is almost (but not quite) > retired. The hard disc is dead, and it runs off of floppy only. > 5 1/4 inch, of course. > > > Or for that matter an 80286, except as an interesting toy? I'm > willing > > to stipulate that MS DOS ran well on those processors. As did PC > DOS, > > and DRDOS, and CPM/86 (and probably a few more that I'm missing). Geoworks! It ran on top of DOS, as did Windows, but it would work well on a 286 and a hercules display, in 64K of memory. I really wish they would donate it to the world and port it to Linux. You could load it on that 286 is far less time than OO on a Pentium class machine, and still do basically the same job. Type and save/print. They shoulda been contenders, Ric ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ...the Sin of Ignorance, and ...the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ ================================================ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
