DOS lives (was: Taken: AT 286 motherboard with mathco)

-------------Original Message(s): Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:11:33 -0700 From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> Subject: Re: Taken: AT 286 motherboard with mathco On 17 Oct 2007 at 9:30, Jim Leonard wrote: Ditto here. Not much of a problem running DOS 7.x for FAT-32 with DOSLFN to give long filename support. With a faster disk, an otherwise unusuable (under WinXP) system can turn in very decent performance. And using a 32-bit DPMI server to run 32-bit command- line applications can turn in very good results indeed--while not putting a wall between the hardware and your applications. A lot of Linux has even been getting bloated enough to adversely affect performanc on many P1 systems, particularly when one of the graphics desktops is involved. Cheers, Chuck -------------Reply: Count me in! Dos7.x on a modern system is sweet; fast, stable as a rock and lots of time-tested *useful* utilities out there as well to make it even better. Hook it up to your network and who could ask for more; now if only there were drivers for some of the newer peripherals... Thanks, BillG! <ducks>. m