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Re: A stupid DOS question.....
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Tue, 8 Dec 1998 21:38:41 GMT
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> > Didn't PC-DOS have a bunch of really cool features that MS-DOS never
> > had, such as reliable task-switching and reliable disk compression,
> > among other things?
Yes.
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> If you _really_ want a command line interface that runs on pretty
> modest comps, install Linux. Slackware 3.4 works off of 4 megs, even,
> with some fiddling. Actually, my sentiments run more like: ewwww. DOS.
I was never a great fan of DOS...my introduction to PC's came when 3.1
windows was around. (Though then one needed to know DOS to get the most
out of it....).
I will be buying a couple of refurb 486's that my employers will be
disposing of shortly. Upon one of those I will be installing either
Redhat or Suse. A magazine here recently had both on a cover CD, as well
as a heck of a lot of software.......
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| (...) Hmm. I doubt they're the full cd's. Lemme pop my RedHat 5.1 and SuSe 5.0 CD's in my tray and check... Lesse: RH 5.1 (btw, 5.2 is out now.): 577 Megs. Suse 5.2:: 624 megs Slackware 3.5: 645 megs... Anyway, I doubt you'll see two full distro's (...) (26 years ago, 8-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Go with RedHat. For the novice the installation can't be beat. I'm still a novice, so I can say that. I'm waiting a few weeks for Linuxppc to come out with R5. I'll order it then and put it on my G3 at work so I can at least dual-boot into a (...) (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) If you _really_ want a command line interface that runs on pretty modest comps, install Linux. Slackware 3.4 works off of 4 megs, even, with some fiddling. Actually, my sentiments run more like: ewwww. DOS. :) Jasper (26 years ago, 8-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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