On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Steve Simon<st...@quintile.net> wrote: > As Anthony says it is very very old, but I might > be fun if you had the time on your hands. The 2nd edition > books/cdrom are nolonger available but you might find > a set seccond hand (abebooks.com etc). > > The floppys are here: > /n/sources/contrib/steve/historic/2nd-edition/pcdist/ > > I found a complete mirror of the old 2nd edition site > and I think uriel has copied it to cat-v.org. > > You will need 16Mb to install and 8Mb to run a terminal > though It will work at 640x480x1 resolution. > > The 4th edition should run on a 486, though you will need > (say) 128Mb of ram - much more if you want to recompile gs(1). > > -Steve > >
With a little help from FreeDOS, I am now successfully running 2e on a 66MHz 486 with 32 MB of RAM and little bitty hard drive (< 300 MB). It's fun; on the surface, it's not a lot different, although 800x600x1 makes things interesting (I like it, actually... rio hacking time?). I'd kill for the full CD, which I guess would have to go on my other 486, since I seem to recall that the full system needs 500 MB. However, given licensing, I suppose it's out of reach for the time being--anybody with experience in this sort of thing, is there a point in time when it could be distributed freely, or will it be stuck in the "You can't have 2e without a license, and you can't have a license" state forever? John -- "Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing" -- Rob Pike
