On 29 Mar 01 at 2:39, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> (from ALejandro Lieber):
>
> > I regularly use a 40 Mhz 386 with a yellow hercules display.
>
> Yuck! Not so much for the lowly 386, but for the monochrome monitor. I
> went with VGA, though not SVGA, with my first computer in 1990, 386SX-16, 40
> MB hard drive, 3.5" and 5.25" high-density diskette drives, 1 MB RAM. VGA
> was so much easier on the eyes than either Hercules monochrome or CGA.
Yellow hercules is very easy to look at. Black and white is horrible.
> >Some months ago, my computer was a 286 with 2 Mby. I did all my internet
> >with it.
> >
> >I then "upgraded" to a 486 DX2 66Mhz 12Mby.
> >This was to much. Really unnecessary for running DOS.
> >But the most important thing was that "the thrill was gone" as B.B. King
> >once sung.
>
> You're really strapped with a 286, since much of the DOS software will run
> only on 386 and higher.
I only upgraded from the 20Mhz 80286 2MBY to the 386 because I wanted
to use LYNX instead of Bobcat.
All the other programs: Pegasus Mail, Minuet, Yarn with TCPPort
Nettamer and Bobcat run without a single problem. They run in the
first megabyte of memory, the second megabyte was used by smartdrv.
My US Robotics 56Kb modem ( regularly conected to 50333 ) was my
bottleneck.
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Alejandro Lieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Rosario Argentina
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