As you see, Arachne can delete the crap. but to the other point..
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 20:47:57 +0100, Tibor Mocsar wrote:
> PS: This was my last message to this list. IMO SURVPC survived its own
> lifespan. We discuss here Win9x, Linux, the "entity of an OS" and other
> rather philosophical questions, that are (IMO) absolutely not covered
> by the original topic of the list. This led to the feeling that
> SURVPC is neither useful nor entertaining enough to me anymore.
> Good bye!
Well, Timor, if you find another list which focuses on 486's and robust
DOS software, including that still under development and supported... do
let me know. Preferably not with Yahoo, Topica, or other list hosting
service that spams users within email.
As for win users, anything past win 3.1 on anything less than a 586 166
with 16meg DRAM is ... unreliable. I dunno if anything better qualifies
for this list.
As regards win 3.1, it is no longer under development, whereas DOS, as
with ROMDOS & DR-DOS 7, (currently at 7.03) are continuing under
development for the 'embedded' market, automated process control, field
data acquisition, or other _dedicated_ applications which require the
highest degree of reliable, no crash, performance with inexpensive
hardware.
Windows has been advertised as a _multi-tasking_ os. However, the cost
of hardware has declined so rapidly, that if you need a fax or whatever
running at all times, it makes sense to setup a dedicated system for
that purpose rather than trying to run it in the background.
One solution to uninstalling Internet Explorer, is not to install it in
the first place. You can do email or surf in dos. If you have the
hardware to support win 9x, you could use LINUX/Netscape instead, and
quit being run thru these constant crises with sabotage software aimed
at Microsoft, or the inherent unreliability of windows software.
Typically, users run one app, the cut and paste from another, or edit
graphics to paste that in. But, that kind of thing isnt multi-tasking,
it is task _switching_. the 'back ground' apps are not running, but
just holding data sets in RAM ready to be called up. DR-DOS, for one,
has the ability to create a number of virtual machines that can hold
various apps and their data sets in memory while the forground task
edits, compiles, or whater. Task switching, only a whole lot faster
than the same hardware can do it with windows.
Just about anything you can do with win 3.1, you can now do in dos,
but this does not mean going back to the command line interface. there
are familiar looking graphic user interfaces in dos.
uncopywritten. do what you will with it.
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