Re: PC Transporter OS

[a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

"william strutts" <wrstrutts1@home.com> wrote:

>> "Wayne Stewart" <waynes@intergate.ca> wrote in message
>
>>> I thought I'd try windows on my PC transporter and was hoping someone
>>>could tell me the latest version I could use? 3.0,3.1, NT? :-)
>>>
>"Brendon Woirhaye" <bytre@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>
>> As I recall, the Transporter didn't do any Windows implementations.  In
>>its day, Windows 2.0, 2.1, or 2.2 may have been current, but I think the
>>transporter was designed for DOS usage.
>
>Isn't it an 8086 processor on the card? Windows needs
>at least a 80286 for 3.0 and a 80386 for 3.1.

    The PC-Transporter uses a NEC V30, an 8086 compatible chip with
some additional instructions sets from the 80186.

    In terms of practical use your best off using MS-DOS v6.22, though
it can run Windows 3.0 in an _extremely_ limited sense.

Mitchell Spector
a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca