Re: Using 386's

[lunchmeat7 <jsantapau@mindspring.com>]

the dr-dos that caldera now owns, would be good and windows 3.11 as an gui,
caldera dos comes with personal netware, and a netware client and the fileserver
can be a linux box running mars_nwe.
ok its not an application server but its an idea..
windows 95 on a 386 ? how much ram are we talking here ? whose going to guy the
nic cards ? meaning that 10bt cards cost as much as the computers are worth.

Gercan6716@aol.com wrote:

> Hi,  I have a friend that has just received a shipment of 386 computers.  She
> would like to incorporate them into her Daycare envirnment for the children.
> She understands that they are very old,  but with little available resources,
> would like to be able to do something with them besides throwing them away.  I
> was thinking of setting up a network using MicroSoft 95 as a network OS to
> store and run the programs,  but I don't think the 386's would still be able
> to handle it.  The solution I would think is to setup a network,  and have the
> 386's run apps on that server (Application Server Enviro.).  Does anyone have
> any other ideas?
>     Thanks,
>       G.
> P.S. The applications mentioned would probably be DOS or Windows based.