Re: PC Transporter OS

[Roy Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

Mitchell Spector wrote:

> "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,

I would say that you are better off using MS-DOS 3.3, since 4.0 and higher are
much fatter, and there isn't "high" memory on the PCT to move DOS out of the
640k, meaning that 3.3 gives you all the functionality you will need from DOS,
with the smallest "footprint".

Roy

> though
> it can run Windows 3.0 in an _extremely_ limited sense.
>
> Mitchell Spector
> a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca