On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Clarence Verge wrote:
> Currently, I personally recommend DOS 5.0 because it does have distinct
> advantages over both 3.3 and 6.2x.
MS-DOS 5.0? Don't know where I'd find that these days. I was thinking of
either an earlier version of DR-DOS or maybe FreeDos, that way I'd have
a Microsoft free system. I don't use any form of Windows.
This is for the the 486dx66 that somebody gave me a year ago. I just
had it sorted out and its now almost ready to go. (still has some
memory problem) Should have 32 megs, but is only showing 8.
I've always used MS-DOS 6.22, which I'm accustomed to and have a
reluctance to give up. But if there were a real advantage to using
a different DOS for this new machine, I might give it a go.
> There are many who still hold that newer and bigger is better and
> everyone has their own rationalization for buying that P800 with the
> 40G drive. <G>
I think it depends on what you are using the computer for. Mostly I
do email with Pine from a shell account. There wouldn't be much
advantage to faster hardware for that. But the graphic rich
museumsites that I like to peruse would certainly come up faster
on more capable hardware.
Of course there is something to be said about doing things slowly
and having time to think.
Sam Ewalt
