operating systems

Zeus334 wrote: 'scuse me son, but this AST system I use for day-to-day stuff is only allowed to boot Microslough on the (rare) occasions I feel like playing a game. Otherwise it (this week) is normally running Caldera OpenLinux with the RedHat CDE and Netscape 4.03 to talk to the world through a DIP/Slirp connection to my ISP. Correct, I've recompiled the kernel, to leave out a bunch of device drivers I didn't need and to add (as modules) a few that come in handy -- like the one that runs my Zip drive. It may seem strange to a Windows user, but vi is my main editor (fifteen years now), because I don't care for the unnecessary 90% of the features in modern word processors -- I edit, then I set things up for output later, without the distraction of all of the crap at the top of the screen with MS Word in _any_ release since Word for DOS 1.0. And I use that same vi editor on my AT&T 7300, my Tandy 6000 and (courtesy of MKS) on all of my DOS boxen. Oh, and on my Sun and on my OS-9 Level II Color Computer III (under the name TRS-Edit) and probably one or two other machines out of sight elsewhere in the house. For those interested, the MKS toolkit for MS-DOS worked from day one on the Tandy 2000 with its 80186. And while I haven't tested it myself, I am told by a reliable source that it runs on the DEC Rainbow under MS-DOS. -- Ward Griffiths Two thousand yeare since Bethlehem and still we hear the lie, that after years of hopes and fears the best part's when we die.