I played around with the, now freeware, combi program --a combined
ram disk and disk cache. I loved having a auto resizable ram disk that
would never be too small. I did not love that combi takes up perhaps
1/3 more ram than say, smartdrv would for a comperable sized disk cache.
The latter is a
Or Botton wrote:
Actually, I heard it was a 486 laptop that serves as the main-computer
on space-station Mir.. or was it Sky-lab?
Or Botton
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Don't think it's a 486, way to new/fast. I've heard a
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Charles Dye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(I am told, however, that early space shuttles used core-memory
computers. I don't know this for a fact, but it's an... intriguing...
claim.)
They still do. It took 48k of core to reach the moon in 1969.
Today, most military
On 1999-03-15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On 11 Mar 99 at 19:04, Casper Gielen wrote:
IMHO it's DOS (yes, especially MS-DOS which used to be the best)
and Apple who should be praised for opening up computing.
DOS and Apple did helped to open up computing, however IIRC MS-DOS
was not
On 1999-03-15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Sunday, Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
] "format a: /u /s"
If I format a: /u and then do a sys a: I get the same result as well.
]Gives you a:\io.sys a:\drvspace.bin a:\msdos.sys a:\command.com
] on the flopy in a:. I don't have any
On Monday, Ole Juul [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
] I use interserver which comes with MS-DOS 6.+. It takes
[snip]
] Note: you have to use MS on both machines. g
No you dont. I used interlnk in my DR-DOS box for several weeks while
this computer's screen was unviewable. If you have one computer
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Or Botton wrote:
On 15 Mar 99 at 4:57, Ole Juul wrote:
Hi Or,
Where can I find this "Word Viewer" program?
There are 2 versions of it, one for 3.x, one for 9x.
Is there one for DOS?
~pete
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Hi all,
Does anybody know where I might be able to download a (recent - 6.11 I think)
copy of MASM? I've got one on a MSDN CD somewhere bu I think it's hiding from
me, and I don't really want to use DEBUG to code a somewhat complex TSR...
Regards, Home page:
I used to have an Apple 2 E, whith Prodos and basic.system and startup.bas
on it, it was prety cool.
Yeah, I used to have one of those critters - next door neighbour gave it to me
instead of throwing it out in a garage clear-out. My father came back from
work the day after and said that his
ROT could be either Really OT or Rather OT, you'll be the judge.
I even think that swedish law says that I can't save a file for more than 5
years or something equaly stupid ;)
(Or atleast this was the case a few years back)
Do you mean, that if you create a file you are not allowed to keep
BTW: All of you that don't have W95 (with QuickTime 3) and want to see
something from the trailer for Episode I: "The Phantom Menace" can visit my
homepage I put some images up there (28 to be exact). Now I need to find
out how to copy the sound from the movie file (a conversion to a more
Charles Dye wrote:
Shouldn't that be, "So Bill gets his name, address, bank name and
account number...?"
Take a guess at which company wrote the banking software :)
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Casper Gielen
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http://home.wxs.nl/~vcmeaned
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The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is
No I'm not using the auto switch.
in my config.sys it says device=c:\dos\interlnk.exe
that's all.
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From: Steven Darnold [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SURVPC] intersvr
Date: Tuesday, March 16, 1999 1:36 PM
- Believe you me, it activates reguardless of weather
Hi,
with pippi5's help I have restored win3.1 Not 3.11 to my machine yet I
cannot yet get any of the icons/program groups that had been present in
the Program Manager desktop prior to my running Win-Setup
is there any way of restoring these now missing program groups?
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On Sunday, Charles Dye [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
] Renamed SCANDISK.EXE to something else. Fired up DEBUG. Created a one-
] byte program (a single RET opcode) and named it SCANDISK.EXE. Bootup was
] a lot faster from then on. End user was *amazed* at how quickly the new
] ScanDisk
Catfish and I made a simple security program that goes in your autoexec.bat.
Cannot be CRTL+BREAKd and asks you for username and
password. Can easily be bypassed so it only works against
computer 'illiterate' people. IT GOT A REVIEW!!! Last I heard it had
23 downloads ;-) took us an hour or two
Do you know how to recreate them? That may be the simplest answer. Heck,
I recreate all my icons from scratch, deleting the defaults, moving things
to custom folders, etc. Sort of like rearranging the furniture when you
move in. I don't know where the info on what was there before might be
(Ole Juul wrote:)
That went fine until I discovered that the more I accessed
the machine, the more the FAT got thrashed. Before I could
catch it, the whole drive was a gonner.
Same thing happened to me once. Never figured out why. Never
InterServ/Link since, used LapLink instead (only need
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