System Requirements

If your system is capable of, and is running OS/2 2.1 or higher, you can 
take advantage of ZipStream. 

If you are still unsure, ZipStream has the following requirements: 

Requirements 

 1. A PC that is supported, is capable of, and is running OS/2 2.1, OS/2 
    2.11, OS/2 Warp Version 3 or higher. 

 2. At least 4 MB of RAM, 8 MB recommended, 16 MB optimal. 

 3. At least 10 MB of swap area is recommended (see below for more 
    information on Swap Requirements). 

 4. A 386 (or better) CPU, 486 highly recommended, Pentium outstanding. 

Recommendations 

 1. ZipStream excels on 486's with 16 MB of RAM, and for that matter, so 
    does OS/2. 

 2. ZipStream has been designed to take advantage of 486 (and better) 
    CPU's, and ZipStream's Virtual File Cache performs best when there is 
    plenty of RAM. 

The benefit of these recommendations is that ZipStream gives access 
performance to compressed files as if they were not compressed.  For 
example, after a small initial access delay to game files, games will play 
with no noticeable degradation in performance. 

Swap File Requirements 

ZipStream is designed to give fast access to files, by trying to keep as 
many of the current set of files decompressed in memory as possible, in 
its Virtual File Cache. 

Note:  ZipStream's behaviour is highly configurable in this area. 

On systems with low amounts of RAM, ZipStream will utilise Swap Space to 
keep uncompressed information available for ready access.   More memory 
means less Swap requirements and faster access.  More files being 
concurrently accessed, means more Memory requirements. 

Of course, the Swap Space requirements are easily reclaimed MANY times 
over by keeping your files compressed with ZipStream.