On Fri, 2003-12-26 at 21:25, Lance Lyon wrote: > [...] > One of the reasons i rarely participate here is because this list has turned > into Yet Another Linux List.
Sadly, it hasn't been much of ANY sort of list as of late! > Yes, I still use DOS, on a variety of machines (an 8088, 286 & 486). None of > these have (or ever will have) a Linux distro on it (that's on the "modern" > machine in use here). Now that I have some room, I'm hoping to dig out my old XT and get it running properly again. I need to find some full-height 5.25 inch drives, etc. to make it authentic, but otherwise it all seems to still work. I'm not sure exactly what I'll do with it, and I'll have to see what cards I can scrounge up for it, but it's been fun getting my old Apple II+ running and accessible again. > as far as using Linux on the earlier machines - not > bloody likely! DOS does more & better from the command line on those > machines & I see no pressing reason to change. Yeah, there's lots of hardware still around that's not particularly good for Linux. In any case, good to have choices! - Bob 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
