[arachne] Re: Getting Arachne to run on a 286 - Continued!

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On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 16:13:29 -0400 (EDT), Sam Ewalt wrote:

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> On Mon, July 6, 2009 5:02 am, Greg Mayman wrote:

>> I have a Commodore Colt stored somewhere here, but IIRC it was an 8086
>> or 8088. As it has only 2 360k floppy drives and no HDD, I doubt that it
>> could run Arachne in any form.

> You don't need a hard drive to run Arachne. Glenn made (once upon a
> time) a version that would run from a floppy, but not from 360k floppy
> as there is not enough room.

Exactly!

> What you need in reality is a 386 with
> 8 megs, which is the hardware that Michael P wrote it on if you want
> to *run* Arachne. She might go for a stroll on a 286, but you couldn't
> call it *running*.

I'm currently running it on a 133MHz P-I with 32 Mb of RAM, from a 10Gb
HDD which is partitioned as 5 seperate drives.

I mentioned the Commodore only as a point of interest, and I certainly
wouldn't attempt to run Arachne on it.

For that matter, I don't know why I'm still holding onto it!

    Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
    and remember what peace there may be in silence.
        "Desiderata", Max Ehrmann, copyright 1952.

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