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From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: OS/2 memory requirements
Message-ID: <35759@sun.uucp>
Date: Mon, 7-Dec-87 15:33:32 EST
Article-I.D.: sun.35759
Posted: Mon Dec  7 15:33:32 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 13-Dec-87 04:14:41 EST
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Reply-To: chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Organization: Fictional Reality, uLtd
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Keywords: PS/2, OS/2, Hypercard, Multifinder

>I just thought the Mac world might be interested in the following, especially
>in light of the debate about Hypercard/Multifinder (standard system software)
>hardware requirements.

>I just went to an IBM seminar on OS/2 (my boss made me :-()
>*MINUMUM* requirements to *RUN* OS/2 standard edition are:
>	2MB memory	>15MB disk

I didn't know that the IBM had 15 Megabyte floppy disks....

>By the way Apple, is Multifinder going to page sometime in the future? (As
>a SWITCHABLE OPTION, PLEASE!)

Not without an MMU it won't, so if it does happen, it'll only happen on the
Mac II

chuq
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Chuq "Fixed in 4.0" Von Rospach			chuq@sun.COM	Delphi: CHUQ