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| | | (...) Well, disk compression sucks whatever the platform, and task-switching without the facility to see both programs at the same time, and preferably at least semi-true multitasking, so both run at the same time, is only half a solution. Besides, (...) (26 years ago, 8-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: A stupid DOS question..... —Mike Stanley
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| | | | (...) Ah, so you're gonna run X on that 386/16 with 4 megs? :) (26 years ago, 8-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: A stupid DOS question..... —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | (...) Errr.. You prolly could, if you're just planning on running several Xterms... which was kinda the thing I meant. Actually, right here, i was just talking about DOS. You run DOS to play Doom, is about my assessment of the current situation in (...) (26 years ago, 8-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: A stupid DOS question..... —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) Doom runs nicely on Linux. (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: A stupid DOS question..... —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | (...) Hmm. bad example, you're right. I pick one of the two commercial games that's been ported successfully. Aarg. (at least, popular ones that I know of, aka, doom and quake.) Jasper (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: A stupid DOS question..... —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) And Ultima Online. (26 years ago, 10-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: A stupid DOS question..... —Mike Stanley
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| | | | (...) Ultima Online can be played on Linux? Or do the servers run on Linux? I wasn't aware that they sold (or provided along with the wintel) a Linux version. Speaking of other OS's, though, I just installed BeOS 3.1 on one of our Macs today. Would (...) (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: A stupid DOS question..... —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) There's actually a linux client. It's pretty new, so I haven't actually checked it out -- I subscribed this summer, but dropped it because I have an actual life. :) Check this out: ftp://leper.owo.com/...client.tgz (...) Yeah, I've seen Be on (...) (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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