On 10 May 02 at 21:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >There is only one serious drawback with it, and that is its inability >to handle/recognize HD partitions greater than 32 MB. >This is not usually a problem with an older computer because one can >partition the hard drive to satisfy this requirement and one is usually not >dumb enough to try to run W9+ FATCRAP on it. > >But it would be nice to make your P75 run like a P133 and use at least >a 128Mb partition so you don't have to spend every weekend deleting the >trash to make working space. For some, even 128Mb is too small to be >convenient. :(( So, we need a patch for DOS 3.3 to enable its use with large >partitions.
In my experience speed above 40MHz is not important at all when you use non-GUI DOS applications for word processing, database and email. If you do some relevant work with these applications you will produce quite a bit of data, and some of it should probably be available on the hard disk. Actually my lower end hardware has 40MHz speed and 125 MB HDD. I have installed Word processor, databases, spreadsheet, email and even Arachne, but no graphic programs. The limitation I feel most with this box is the fact that I cannot keep all my zipped text archives on the hard disk. To keep email is much worse because majority of people do not send text messages in our days. >What else is missing that is pretty much essential ? >Mem. >Deltree. >Rendir. dosshell taskswitcher (or compatibility with another one) is a must May be it will work? I am not going to test that, though. Christof Lange ________________________________________________________________ Ceskobratrska cirkev evangelicka - Betlemska kaple na Zizkove Prokopova 4/216, 130 00 Praha 3, Czech Republic Tel. (00420-2) 22 78 06 73 / 22 78 20 02 http://www.volny.cz/cce.zizkov
