Howard Eisenberger wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:05:59PM -0600, Day Brown wrote: > > Anyone tried that with a survpc? > > > > Aint it designed for 'thin clint surfing'? > > The QNX demo browser requires 6M ram. It didn't recognize the > modem and/or video card on my Packard Bell 486 when I tried it > a few years ago. > > I recall people talking about using the QNX OS at work (I'm in > Ottawa, where QNX is located) on pre- or early 386's, but it > certainly wasn't cheap. > > I don't think that the recent free version of QNX will run on > a low-end survpc. well, at the opera website, there are browsers that run in win 3.1 and qnx.
As for what a survpc is, there is old, and then there is cheap. 168pin 128meg dram for less than 20$, ATX cases, mthbds, & cpus are all available under 40$ ea. Then too, I've seen 1meg 30 pin dram for a buck a piece. If the 486 has got 8 dram slots it aint hard to max at 8 meg dram. But what I aint seen much of is 4meg 30 pin dram, and it aint hard to spend 100$ on trying to max out a 486 w/32 or 64 or whatever it was. If a, there is a downloadable version of qnx, and b, it will run downloadable opera, and c, do that on less than 32meg dram, ... that will make a lotta folks happy. That is, assuming that opera can handle the mickysloth webpages that Arachne cannot render or crashes on. Will qnx run on a dos or nix or bsd partition? To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
