6 Sep
1997
6 Sep
'97
6:39 p.m.
At 06:36 PM 06/09/97 +0000, you wrote:
stared, look, no cdrom. And I was told by her that her
husband
brought new system for her daughter at cool price of 8000 cdn and I
wondered about that price because her daughter needs a pc for her law
study at college, The typical use is WP use in that kind of area
even a $500-1000 base pentium system would fit very well for that!
Again with $8000, Easy to get 3 VERY decent P5 166/64mb/2.5GB/new
complete systems with truck loads of legal software for each
pc and a good laser printer or two to go with either two of them.
Sounds like a candidate for the "Most Inappropriate use of Computer
Hardware Award" to me. A WP, you could stick WP5.1 on an 8088 if it comes to
that.
Sounds like a member of the administration (who will remain nameless to
protect the moronic) at the university I waste money in. Just after
purchasing a spanking new Pentium 166 with 64mb and all the goodies,
including an ATI All in Wonder card (on our nickel I might add!), he asked
his secretary to scare up a new template for WP5.1, For this is all he used
it for! (where's my wailin' stick when I need it :)
as well. I want none of that ideas that Mr. Gates and
funny PnP,
winmodems that came out. I do not understand this.
I stay away from anything that uses "win" as a prefix. What, no jumpers?
Basically if Win95 can't get it to work on whatever IRQ or port that the
device wants, your screwed.
This win95 (blows) leads to other options which I am
looking at
linux. Linux is very promising and I am learning to use it, trying
to upgrade my old 2 4+ yr old 386 portables first also currently
learning on my other pentium 75 o/c'ed to 100 lunchbox. Then install
it on main pc when I feel more confident to put it to real use. :)
Looking for a UNIX like OS for you 386? Why don't you get MINIX? A lot
less overhead and pretty easy to set up. (not much out for it yet, put the
list grows everyday) You could even get a version of Xwindows for it, and
MINIX will run on an XT! (two versions, i86 and 386)
Speaking of UNIX-like OS's, anybody remember Sundown drives which came
loaded with Venix86? I believe a company called Unisource sold them. I
wonder if there may be a 'virgin' drive somewhere just waiting to be used... ;)
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