Ole Juul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes re. Swatch Time:
Besides, I don't know about the idea of changing to base
10 for time measurement. If it should be changed to fit in
better with computers and the internet, perhaps base 16
would be more practical. Anyway, I could rant for a long
time about the
Bernie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes re: Disk compression trivia
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 time that I have to close Win
with Crtl-Alt-Del
Or Botton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes re: new box?
On 10 Mar 99 at 18:55, Bernie wrote:
This is the reason that NASA aren't using any faster CPU than 386 in space,
the newer will much more easily be destroyed while out there.
Actually, I heard it was a 486 laptop that serves as the
Ben A L Jemmett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
instead of pressing Control-Alt-Delete got nasty surprises. (Yes, me too.)
Well I've always used INT 19h - or is it 18h? - which SmartDrive should hook.
Hopefully.
Ought to. Still, I'd throw in an INT 21/.AH=0D just to be on the safe side.
MS-DOS
Or Botton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes re: why a surv. PC?
Well, I really do need the multi-tasking features..
About the windows multi-tasking, the bad side is that it will
multi-task better Windows programs. Unfortunatly, you cant run more
then one DOS programs in most Windows 95 installs i've
No doubt there will be enormous noise after that M$ announcement to
split up into 4 ...
What struck me as potentially a same kind of "classic" quote (and
newspeak) like the one of "640 KB should be enough for everybody", was
this tiny bit from what the BBC carried of Gates's OB sound in Tokyo
on
Hi!
The freeware dialler/packet-driver included in the Bobcat package,
Netdial/DOSPPPD, doesn't rewrite the wattcp-cfg-file everytime, but
instead sets the changing ip-addresses as environment values if you,
via a batch-file, choose to run the batch-file "ip-up.bat" which is
automatically
Y'know, the windows bashing and gates bashing has left the arena of
intelligent complaints and gone into habitual rudeness. We really wanna
behave that way? I do see good things about windows. It has brought a lot
more people into contact with each other, people who can't drive a computer
How simple would a data in one com port, data out another program be?
You could set up another PC like my wooden 386 (which I'm typing this
on now) which has the modem plugged in to the com port it needs to
be. You connect your 'usage' PC to the the input COM port (which has a
different irq) with
Date:Sat, 13 Mar 1999 23:54:50 +0200
I am going to start selling old computers for low prices for
people who cannot afford new expensive computers. mainly by
snip...
I want to be able to use the Arachne dialer to connect to the
internet, but without actually running Arachne.
Could anyone point me toward free networking software? I'd like to play
with my home systems and see what I can set up. Any other resources for
networking on the cheap would be appreciated as well. I am working with 386 and 486
machines running MSDOS 6.22 and windows 3.1
though I may soon
On 13 Mar 99, Charles Dye wrote :
There was no MS-DOS 6.1x. There was an IBM DOS 6.1, which included a
*coupon* for SuperStor/DS (which eventually was included with IBM DOS
6.3.)
You are wrong, but you could still be right. I've got PC-DOS 6.1 here,
and it came with SuperStore/DS! No
Does any one know how to format a flopy disk whith ms dos 622 or higher
so that drvspace.bin wont automatically be included in the system transfer?
As well as be loaded, wheather you use it or not.
removing it afterwards shouldn't make a problem occour. you could also try:
format a:
sys c: a:
On 1999-03-13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
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
Not Sky-Lab..Sky-Lab was back in the 70's, Waaayyy, before the 486
came out.
Chad A. Fernandez
Battle Creek, MI
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 didnt used it since 89, which means its
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