Hi all, I managed just now to connect to the internet with my Aurora running SMSQ/E 2y99 but not through QDOS/SMSQ.E but via PC Conqueror SE, TCPIP for DOS (IBM ca 1995), MS DOS 6.22 and Lynx. Next I will try DR-DOS 7.03 which also has a graphical browser in it (I doubt it it can work with CGA though... anybody knows who wrote PC Conqueror so we could maybe amend the code a bit to use the extended resolutions that we have available? Bochs could be another solution but it's TOO big compared to PC-Conqueror...
In the meantime, I ran some tests with PC-Conqueror with SMSQ/E 2y99, QPC, Aurora, Q40 and QXL. I had Checkit + v. 3.00 with stored results from a 386-DX @ 25 MHz I used to sell en masse in Greece (Altec 386i if anyone is historically inclined www.altec.gr ) and I compared it with the results from PC-Conqueror... The results are to say the least amazing Q40 CPU: 59x speed of an IBM XT (4.77MHz), 1.93x the speed of the aforementioned 386DX!!!! Math: 35x speed of an IBM XT (same), 1.85x the speed of the aforementioned 386DX!!!! Video: 95x speed XT (BIOS), 87x speed (Direct), 25x BIOS compared to 386DX25, 20x Direct VIDEO!!!! QPC's results (running on a Athlon XP @ 2200+ with Direct X 9, ATI radeon 6500 w/ 64Mbytes DDR under WinXP) are very similar (a little slower than the Q40 but around there) The Aurora I am testing as we speak. I wonder if anyone has Norton Utilities prior to v. 5 (4.5 preferrably so it can work with an XT) so I could try the SI instead which is a lot more accurate than Checkit's measurements. My copy is still in Greece and I only have v. 8.0 here (that runs under a 286 only) Phoebus
