Unix vs. VAX/VMS and Windows vs. Unix/Linux/BSD -- seems like we'veseenthis before - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

8 May 2000

...
 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. 

Simple, buy 95b and hit their site for hte upgrades.  Most of them are for
USB anyway.

...
 Actually, I'm wondering if the FreeBSD 1.1.5.1
would run on some of
the new hardware.  I've got a tape of it and I'm thinking about
building it. 

Likely it would but you'd have problems with hardware that is not
supported as it didn't exist then.

...
   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. 
Word Perfect Office 2000... It's huge (the full load of the Professional
version is around 340mb). 

I heard it was a monster.  I know people that like WP-8 as it does things
format wise that Word cant and it's very useful to lawyers for that.

...
 The VT180 was one of the best CP/M machines to use. 
Typeahead,
good hardware, a great screen and the best keyboard. Just too expensive
for most people. 

Yep, it's a winner.  I have several (plus gave away a bunch more over the
years).
It's a nice machine to hack as well.  Mods I've done include 6mhz z80, two
sided,
3.5" 781k/720k floppy and a  romdisk/ramdisk. plus a bubble memory
interface.

The AmproLB is another really great CP/M engine with SCSI even.  There
were some later designs like the P112 (from OZ) with a 16mhz Z180 IDE
and all the other goodies.

Another favorite is the Micromint SB180 with the scsi/com card 9.6mhz
64180 (z180) 256k ram FDC that works with any 8/5.25/3.5 disk and a
SCSI interface for hard disk.

Kaypros are OK, the display software is slow but they run well especially
if they have turborom installed.

Allison