On 11 Feb 01 at 10:50, Clarence wrote:
>>> One thing I've
>>> noticed in my experience with Window 9x is the apalling lack of any
>>> alternatives to the diskcacheing software built into Win9x. There
>>> were many choices before these 32 bit operating systems and it seems
>>> a shame that there are no more choices with these OS's.
>>
>>Do you REALLY need to use such soul-stealing software ?
No, I don't need to use it, and my soul is still intact. I run it on
my P100 which I mostly use for the free ISP's (Bluelight et. al. and
not very many et.al.'s either any more). For my daily use I use
MSDOS 6.22 with Arachne and Pegasus Mail for DOS v3.50 on my
486DX4/100 where I truly do feel at home. I was simply bemoaning the
loss in diversity of choices for cacheing software programs for the
Windows OS. The little bit of knowledge of Win9x I do have has been
useful in helping other folks with their problems, who do run Win9x by
choice or default, so it is not for nought that I have some experience
with it.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
P.S. Just a little secret between you and me, Clarence, I also have
Win95 on an old 386DX-40 with 8meg RAM that has an old Seagate 120
meg HD Drivespaced to 200 meg, and it runs surprising well. The
reason I initially installed it was that I bought a floppy install of
Win95 at a garage sale last summer and I wanted to verify that the
disks were uncorrupted. I was surprised how well it runs so I have
played around with it quite a bit. I recently installed an old USR
33.6 Winmodem and got connected with Netscape 3.x. Don't worry
though, I haven't gone over to The Dark Side....yet. ;)
There are 2 theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.
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