8 May
2000
8 May
'00
6:55 p.m.
Swap was 40mb was 40mb is all cases. W95A is not the
fasest version. I
used W95C without IE/WOW/Plus packages installed and NS3.01 as the browser
makes a huge difference hence my comment (tuned). The hotest W9x setup is
W98se stripped and the W95A shell. You need both and something called
98lite20 to build it. It's akin to doing a system specific build under
linux.
Getting W95C legally was difficult if you're not an OEM or buying it with
hardware. I'm going to look at 98lite20. I've been pretty pleased with
the performance on Win98.
Linux
isn't really an OS release. That's why I prefer *BSD
which are OS releases rather than this kernel with that addon toolset
with those other apps.
Freebsd is better from my experience. I've run that on EVERYthing from
386/16 (4mb ram) up and it is clearly faster than linux, win9x or NT.
At least for the 2.2.6 release. I find that it's not too hard to mix and
match most apps with any Linux
version. One DUMB setup script file edit makes WordPerfect office play
nice with Caldera's 2.x.
Which WPoffice? I have Caldara Openlinux 2.2 and 2.3 and WP8 is fine
under KDE. Just has a huge footprint on teh disk though. Yup... of
course the IOBYTE version of Kermit worked with the VT180
in S-L-O-W fashion... the customized non-generic version was much nicer.
Only if IObyte was implemented (often it was not). There were a lot of
poor BIOS implmentations that really hurt the performance and useability
of CP/M. lack of typeahead was my pet peve due to lack of interrupts
and poor modem performance (same reason).
Allison
Bill
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