On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 03:30:23 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Thanks to Roger Turk and Sam Ewalt for suggestions on buying additional RAM at a
> cheap price, but I'm inclined to think it not worth the trouble on this old
> computer, with hardware becoming gradually less dependable, and no non-DOS OS
> wanting to install. Linux boots but can't read my CD-ROM; NetBSD hangs on boot.
> OpenBSD boots but doesn't support my SCSI, so it can't read my CD-ROM.
> Conceivably I could copy Linux modules to a DOS partition and install from there
> in several stages, then try to debug the source code for 'mount' and the
> g_NCR5380 SCSI part.
That does seem a bit of a bother. More reasonable to just buy a
much zippier system. You could easily double or triple your
CPU speed and available memory for under a hundred bucks.
Or wait six months and quadruple everything for half the price.
(I'm grinning when I write this, but I bet it's not far from
the truth.)
Sam Ewalt
Croswell, Michigan, USA
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