Quite precise, Brent !
One interesting detail I read from a good observer who had followed
a European tour of Gates lately, and had even interviewd him: that his
often reported "shyness" might be a wrong interpretation, that the
observer felt that this was rather a "mistrusting, fearful"
Bill's maternal grand father was banker and set up a trust fund of
ONE MILLION dollars for his future first grand son(The banker had
only one child :-)). This was in the forties (?). Do a little cost
of living/earning in those days and you will know what it amounts .
Bill had always known of
Ben A L Jemmett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
OK... MS-DOS 6.0x had DoubleSpace (algorithms stolen from Stac, no
decompress
option, very unreliable).
Yes. However, I'll point out that the majority of the problems reported
with MS-DOS 6.0 (trashed disks) were not caused by DoubleSpace, but by
I am going to start selling old computers for low prices for
people who cannot afford new expensive computers. mainly by
collecting old parts and old computers, and upgrading/fixing/
building them first. This way I can both work on a subject I like,
and help people too.
Along with the
OK... MS-DOS 6.0x had DoubleSpace (algorithms stolen from Stac, no
decompress
option, very unreliable).
Yes. However, I'll point out that the majority of the problems reported
with MS-DOS 6.0 (trashed disks) were not caused by DoubleSpace, but by
SmartDrive. The DOS 6 setup program installed
** Reply to note from SurvPC Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 14 Mar
1999 00:24:27 +0100
The biggest problem with 6.0 (and all after) is that ScanDisk is included.
this has trashed several good working floppys for me, and even taken a
piece of my hardrive (w95 starts it every
On 11 Mar 99 at 22:23, Bernie wrote:
I haven't used Works since 89 or something like that so I don't know how
Snip!
But why not get a copy of your colleagues M$Works? That should be the
easiest soluttion for everyone (but not the most legal).
Hm.. you just said you
On 11 Mar 99 at 22:38, Bernie wrote:
I guess that it only gives yet another proof that everything
bad also got a good side. :)
Here's a tough one: Windows
Well, Windows has these good things:
1. MultiTasking (or perhaps Multiswitching, but atleast you can have 2
diffrent kind of
You could always just use uka_ppp. It's already menu driven, and adding
new options is as easy as modifying the script file. Add to that the fact
that each time you run it, it does as the other dialer does, and rewrites
the wattcp.cfg file for you. I think this'll solve the problem for you.
I
