[H-GEN] HEADS UP: Debian for Kids

[Ron]

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> If necessary I would investigate GEOS...I think it was a HP product and from
> what I saw it looked quite reasonable...it was a windowing system that sat
> on top of DOS and ran quite nicely on 486 with 8 mb....should not be too
> hard to find legal copies of DOS 6 in the bottom of most corporate drawers.
> 
As I recall the windoze3.0-avoidance strategy of the day was DRDOS or
PCDOS plus GEOS which most definitely ran on 486s and even 386s with 8mb
and small HDDs.

Ron Shafran
SC Designs

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