Hi Folks, Thomas,
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 22:22:41 +0000, Thomas Tabler wrote:
> Oh, I guess it's a nice idea to try to revive DOS as an OS
> and I am all for it gangue, but the time required to get it to work
> practically with most computers is staggering.
In my own experience, getting DOS to run on older hardware has not
been a problem.
> This is not to say
> there aren't a lot of fine progs out there, but if you can't even
> use the Internet practically with anything less than a 50Mhz or
> faster computer and 100MB or larger hard drive partition {for a
> bigger browser suite}, then you will be eating yourself alive
> with the time.
My back-up machine is a '486, 33 MHz, slow COM ports. It runs
Arachne 1.66, slowly but successfully, and does internet and email.
It also plays MIDIs on a cheap AdLib clone soundcard.
> Thank God for Arachne Chat and it loads nicely
> today. If I can do anything for DOS I will, if it takes 3 hours
> or less. I am very lucky to have a nicer computer today and I
> was lucky to get it to work. I got an old Sony sound card and am
> going to test it using the Dos version of Sounblaster. Hope I get
> lucky and it doesn't need Windows some version, but if it does, I
> won't be surprised.
The functionality of your Sony card will depend on what chip is on
it. Chances are good that it can be pursuaded to play MIDIs at least in
DOS, and possibly even WAV, AU and AIF.
Regards,
Ron
Ron Clarke
http://homepages.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/index.html
http://tadpole.aus.as
-- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Versatile Internet Client
