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| | | (...) True. But with a 640k MSDOS machine, anything more than wp5.1 is taxing. With a 4 meg, 386sx/16 Linux machine, you can be fully connected to the internet, as a server, bridge, router, or brouter, even, without much trouble. Jasper (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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| | | | (...) No you can't. :) You can do some of that, yes. Whether or not you would shoot yourself in the head waiting for it is another matter. Although I'm sure a 386sx/16 with 4 megs could probably dial in and run telnet just fine. (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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| | | | (...) Sure you can. :) (...) Not really. A server might be slightly slow. Only for say, hosting your scans of instructions so KL can pick them up. I'm talking low-bandwidth applications here. Like, a router for one or two, maybe three people. I know (...) (26 years ago, 8-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: A stupid DOS question..... —Terry Keller
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| | | | (...) Really? I have a 386/40 (with an upgrade chip to TI 486/40) sitting here doing diddly. You're tempting me to try Linux on it. Like I really need something new to spend time on.... -- Terry K -- (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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| | | | | (...) Biggest problem would probably be disk space. If you're going for a good distribution + X, you'd need in the order of 2-300 megs or so. in 80-100 megs, you can just about the most basic tasks , and be a router/gateway. And maybe an inhouse (...) (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | Re: A stupid DOS question..... —Terry Keller
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| | | | | | (...) Cool, it has a WD 340 meg drive. Sucker cost $400 dollars new at the time. <shudder> Just think what that can buy now in a hard drive. -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 12-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: A stupid DOS question..... —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | | | (...) Going to a totally different sort of off-topiuc now, to keep this thread alive :) When I bought my first comp, from my very own money, I bought a DX2/66/4 meg/420 meg/14" thingy for $1000, added extra 4 meg (at a friggin' $160), and some (...) (26 years ago, 13-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: A stupid DOS question..... —Selçuk Göre
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| | | | | | | Oh that was the time...mine had a cost of exact 1250$ (in 1992) including 15% tax and had: 386SX 16 cpu with appropriate mathco 1 MB RAM (not even as 30 pin simms, but as 44256 individual chips) an Oak 067 VGA card with 256 KB of mem 40 MB HDD (...) (26 years ago, 13-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: A stupid DOS question..... —Terry Keller
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| | | | | | | | On Sun, 13 Dec 1998 01:51:26 GMT, "Selçuk <teyyareci>" <sgore@nospam.superonline.com> wrote: <snip> Selçuk, this is completely irrevelent, but I was just wondering about the <teyyareci> in your header. -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 13-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: A stupid DOS question..... —Selçuk Göre
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| | | | | | | | Is it really a stupid DOS question?..:-D Teyyareci is an old word (used during the first half of the century), coming from Arabic, and meaning is "aviator" or "pilot". Old timers (I mean the grandma- grandpa generation) call aircrafts as "teyyare" (...) (26 years ago, 13-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: A stupid DOS question..... —Terry Keller
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| | | | | | | | (...) That is much more than I imagined. Notice that I was careful to not even try to guess. Good thing, too, because my guesses were way off. To say the least. It did not seem like a proper name, last name or title, and the idea of a nickname did (...) (26 years ago, 13-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: A stupid DOS question..... —Terry Keller
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| | | | | | (...) Sucks, doesn't it? I would LOVE to have a new bleeding edge computer, but I hate that feeling of buyers remorse when the price drops soon thereafter. (...) Hey, that's what this groups for. :-) I remember my dad jumping on the computer (...) (26 years ago, 13-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: A stupid DOS question..... —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | | | | (...) Yeah, well, technically :) (...) *winces* Well, my current system config includes:a Iiyama Visiomaster Pro 17, a Keytronic KB101 PLUS Professional series keyboard I bought second-hand for $10 about 4 or 5 years ago, washed it, and won't be (...) (26 years ago, 13-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: A stupid DOS question..... —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | | | (...) Cool. Why both power supplies? You running a dozen HD's in there or something? Sounds interesting. (...) Mrmmm? N-cube? You mean the ram has a 10 year warranty or does N-cube make something else? A buddy showed me a website once of a company (...) (26 years ago, 13-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: A stupid DOS question..... —Kevin Bane
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| | | | | | Terry K wrote in message <36731cf0.713752@lugnet.com>... (...) My brother-in-law (at the time) heard I was taking a computer class, and wanted me to do this huge databasing (is that where you melt floppies in a silver spoon and inject them directly (...) (26 years ago, 13-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: A stupid DOS question..... —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) Go for it. But don't even bother trying X -- the fun will vanish. (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: A stupid DOS question..... —Matthew Marshall
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| | | | fun what fun, staring at a chip on your video baord becuase probe won't work is fun. Trying to get a stink program to fit on your monitor because a %^$ programmer has a %$$ 21 inch monitor at a billion by a billion resolution. If that's fun, I pity (...) (26 years ago, 23-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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