There is a fair amount of stuff from Google detailing the "how to" of making your win 95/98 machine boot to DOS 7 instead of straight to windows, kinda like win 3.1 and earlier.
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 9:24 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Heard of any of these programs? > Wow, I had no idea you could do it! That's a good idea, maybe > I'll download the eval copy and see if it'll run on their stuff! > > And thanks to RBTI for keeping this viability of these DOS apps > still open! > > Karen > > >> Karen, >> >> I still use several computers with 5 1/4" drives. I am able to >> run RBase 7.6 for Dos on a Intel 486 Clone with 64MB of memory >> using Window 98. Actually I run using the underlying DOS mode >> without loading windows. RBase runs fine. >> >> Don't knock it until you try it. Since you are an authorized >> developer why not download a NFR version and try it out on their >> machines. >> >> Jim Bentley > >

