Hello Ben - At 08:22 PM 11/9/02 -0000, you wrote:
>> Of course, they all insisted that a bootable CD made DOS >> unnecessary failing to comprehend that everyone cannot >> boot from a CD. LOL > >Well, you have a point, but bear in mind that there are other options that >don't require DOS; Linux can be installed through booting the kernel off a >floppy disk just as you would with any other system. Unfortunately most of >the whizz-bang distributions these days don't supply or provide the facility >to make such floppies, but those distributions aren't really going to >perform very well on machines of that specification. My point was that while trashing DOS as useless they failed to credit it for what they rely on it to do for them. Most users _depend_ on DOS to be there when they need it. Meanwhile they trash-talk DOS all over the Internet. >BTW, don't you mean "not everyone can boot from a CD"? Sorry, I don't understand you here. Isn't this what I said (read my above original paragrah again?). Charles Angelich The Ghost in the Machine! DOS and W31 Tech website: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/ Stories, poems, MP3/MIDI music, and photos website: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/faf/ To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
