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Sam Ismail wrote: Don't be sorry. It was accurate and to the point. My own Everex P133 notebook came with '95 pre-installed, I begrudge the extra cost. On its 1.3 GB disk it has 1 1GB Linux partition (I fips'd it the week [the day] I got it), I backed up the '95 garbage, it now runs Caldera OpenDOS (I haven't felt the need to upgrade to the DR-DOS that it's been renamed back to) for the rare occasions when I boot in non-linux mode. OpenDOS is _much_ more stable as the foundation when I'm using WABI for those occasional work-related tasks requiring Win compatibility than missed-DOS was. And yes, everything is formally licensed except for the Microsoft scat that came preinstalled -- I have to take the vendor's word on that part. And don't care, since it's not there anymore anyway. Sorry Sam, these flamewars _will_ spring up and die down occasionally. We're here to discuss classic computers, but there _will_ be times when things stray from the main line. The idea is not to take life too seriously -- eventually we die whether we had fun or not. My CoCo's for instance are a _lot_ more fun than my Windoze systems -- but one of the latter is presently the main NFS server here at home (though my wife doesn't _know_ that I did that to her under-utilized P-166). -- Ward Griffiths They say that politics makes strange bedfellows. Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else. Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_