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Subject: RE: [scottish] Nominations for mail clients, what to do with 386 laptop*****************************************************************************
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> Next question: I have been donated a 2Mb 386 laptop. I can
> get it talking
> to my Linux boxes over serial connection using a DOS terminal
> emulator, and
> can even get it to talk ppp. Unfortunately I can't get it to
> run arachne (a
> DOS web browser - not enough memory). Also running ppp as a
> DOS TSR is very
> lumpy. I did try to track down a copy of GeoWorks (an alternative GUI
> written for 286/386 DOS boxes) but it currently is not
> available. Anybody
> any better suggestions?
>1) Find a copy of IE 3 (with dialler and I may have a copy someplace) and in the SYSTEM.INI file of the machine choose the SHELL to be IE rather than WIN.EXE. That's an old hack but I'm not sure if 2MB is too small a mem even for it.
2) Find an old copy of Lynx for the web browsing
HTH
cds
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