L40 SX & Calmira

[wpwood3]

I decided to break out my old IBM PS/2 L40 SX and play with it last weekend. This was my first laptop. I bought it brand new when they first came out. It's sort of the first Thinkpad although it isn't a Thinkpad. 386sx running at 20mhz.

It has had PC-DOS 6.3 and Windows 3.11 on it for years. Still runs great although the battery quit holding a charge eons ago.

Just for grins I installed Calmira 3.3 on it. This is a cool Windows shell that makes Win3.1 act like Win95, 98 or even XP. It basically replaces progman.exe. I tried the regular 3.3, 3.3 LFN and the XP versions. The XP version had too much eye candy for my little L40SX but the 3.3 and 3.3LFN versions run great. The 3.3LFN gives you Long File Name capability.

It appears that Calmira is still being actively developed.
Has anyone else played around with this on their 386 or 486 PC?

[savarin]

Don´t you mean IBM PS/Note? I have N45 SL! It was working hardly for years, still last year was used for high pressure boilers error diagnostics.

It is in excellent condition, excluding CMOS battery. It is too tired, and I have to fillin date and time on every boot. But where to get a new one?
And now I am trying to install new OS, like you. At this moment I am loading FreeDOS. Did you see last versions? I have version 9.0 beta and it looks very nice. Free, fast, nice, helpful, nothing is problem.

No, there is a problem. These last versions became big. We who have only diskette drive are in troubles. Basic installation method is from CD. Imagine - minimal ISO has 12 MB, full version 124 MB!!
There is a one diskette version too, but ...
DOS became FAT.

But IBM PS/Note is a nice machine, is it?