Uncreative Labs

Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 3:58 am

I'm planning to install GEM on my XT next week, is anyone else here running GEM on an XT?

What are we running; MSDOS, PCDOS, DRDOS, FREE-DOS, DESQVIEW?

Joined: 27 Jan 2007 Posts: 274 Location: USA

i run dos and windows, i have tried linux and DR-DOS, the aint bad, but i wana stick to the original classic.

Joined: 22 Apr 2007 Posts: 264 Location: Ohio/USA

Find Xenix (or did it need a 286)?

Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 8:37 am

OpenGEM 5 looks good !

http://gem.shaneland.co.uk/index.html

OS/2 Ver 2 was a possibility however it requires at least 4 MEG's of RAM and does not allow direct floppy disk access (as you would expect) which my Central Point Software Copy Option Board requires.

Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 594 Location: Western NC

FWIW:

I had GEOS (NDO 2.5) on the old XT (with Win3.0) years ago. While Win 3.0 was pretty slow, GEOS was kinda snappy for a GUI...

Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 10:08 pm

I have not run GEOS since I have the original Nokia Communicator phone about 12 years ago, however I just took a look at http://www.breadbox.com/ and was amazed!

I can run this on my XT (with 80386 InboarD) and will probably try it next week.

Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 261 Location: WisConSin

Unknown_K wrote:

Find Xenix (or did it need a 286)?

Actually Xenix was microshafts attempt from 1979 and it grew to be the most widespread unix like OS, at least in the 80's when it lost interest in Xenix.

So there are versions for virtually every system from the Altos 8086 machines in early 82 to geniune IBM pcs, 386 systems, Tandy 6k's and more.

Sadly I'm not sure where you would find the version that specifically would run. Perhaps a little googling and you would find a decent install.

Good Luck