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In article <1992Aug20.112022.968@nuscc.nus.sg> eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (TAN JIN MENG) writes:
>Sorry I wasn't clear here. I just wanted to know how I can estimate the
>memory requirements for a minimal OS/2.

Ah, well, yes, placing CMD.EXE in the PROTSHELL line would, in fact,
result in a minimal OS/2 system.

>There are 2 possible uses.
>One is in a hospital environment where you have multiple beds 
>and you have both data acquisition front ends and a compute
>back end. The app is in real time expert system diagnosis.

Have you looked at IBM's medical expert system for OS/2, by the way?

>The other is as a Super Compute server for 3D visualisation problems.
>We're on a "cheap is good" kick here, so I'm investigating something
>like this. The idea here is to get cheap single board computers with
>network cards (in the case of the Super Server, we put them into one
>cabinet) and with a cheap but solid OS as a base.
>development on the OS/2 platform should be pretty easy too. The
>environment is familiar and there is (likely) to be a multitude of
>software (as well as supported hardware) available for this platform.

I can't really recommend a specific approach for a couple reasons.
One is that there's no clear standout winner right now, the other is
that there are so many options.

So I'll solicit opinions for you.  :-)

Does anyone have advice to offer on this subject?  Anyone with similar
setups?

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