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Re: OS Recommendations
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos
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Thu, 17 Feb 2000 17:05:00 GMT
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Michael J Ash wrote:
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> I got my Mindstorms this summer, and I've been subscribed to the list
> since around the same time. Since then I've been playing around
> extensively with NQC. I haven't attempted to make the jump to legOS so
> far for two reasons. First, I have a Mac. Second, I was intimidated. :)
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> I somewhat solved the first problem through an emulator called VirtualPC.
> I overcame the second one when trying to write some navigation code, and
> finally getting too frustrated trying to work within the limits of NQC
> while doing trigonometry and such things. So I think I've decided to take
> the plunge.
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> Now, with VirtualPC, I basically have a rough equivalent of a Pentium-60
> inside my Mac. Since I'm not really going to be using it for anything
> beyond legOS, my question is simple: which OS should I use? From what I
> gather, legOS started out under Linux (or some such UNIX variant) and was
> later ported to Windows. Does it follow that the Linux version is more
> current or more refined? Is there anything to recommend one x86 OS over
> another when it comes to using legOS?
Actually, NCQ on the mac just works fine. LegOS works fine under FreeBSD
which works and install's fine under the VirtualPC (Just from a walnut
creek cdrom). Linux works fine under the VirtualPC as well, but none of
the install disk's I tried (RH, Suse and Mandrake) wanted to play.
So I eneded up fidling with disk images and getitng linux to work that
way. Despite all this you get about the same performance out of it
as with W95. :-)
Dw.
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