Re:Getting OS/2 (Score 1)

Why use OS/2?

In the interests of demonstrating how windows wastes hardware.

If you can wean yourself off windows and have a need to work and not really play...

There is a screen shot at http://www.martinic.org

All on a P3 1G with 512MB but it runs almost equally as well on 128-256MB. The
virtual memory management

The Machine wasn't even beginning to sweat on;

Burning a CD at 12X,
Scanning simultaneously,
Watching TV,
Watching an MPEG (it's black because the capture didn't account for the video
interlacing.
Running a fax machine
Running FTP and other server processes
Running a firewall and cable-modem services
PMMail
a half-dozen desktop management tools
Web browsing
Windows 98 in a Virtual Machine BOX (also does linux in a box)
Photo album software (which took the snapshot)
plus others..

Around 33 processes.