At 12:09 PM 5/25/98 EDT, you wrote:
>Yes, what a find indeed! We're still dancing around the house saying, "$5!"
>We did actually try to tell them they could probably get more out of it, even
>when we thought it was only a 286, but she insisted she wanted it "out of
>here."
>
>This morning we downloaded some video drivers from the Trident page and we
>have 16 million colors!!! The modem can't be more than a 14.4 as slow as it
>is, but we did speed things up a lot by making the memory swap file for Win
>3.1 larger than 0. Now to see if that tape drive works, and to find some
>memory that will fit in it without spending a week's salary.
Try the Ebay Auction site (http://www.Ebay.com/). They always
have people selling 4MB sims at resonable price.
>Relearning Windows 3.1 is kind of like learning to read again. It's good for
>me, though, as I just happen to have a customer who needs support for 3.1.
>
>It was a business we bought the computer from. A natural gas company.
As for what system you should convert into the Linux Box, Faster
is always better.
As I have said before, I prefer FreeBSD over linux for a few
reasons. One of the reasons is that, it has a better partition
program. It will split the drive into a minimum # of partitions
for you (sized so you can install the system). Linux doesn't
have this feature.
Also, FreeBSD is more command line based in it's tools. Linux is
more GUI based (like MS is).
What ever you choose, choose what is best for you.
Matt Soffen
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Boss - "My boss says we need some eunuch programmers."
Dilbert - "I think he means UNIX and I already know UNIX."
Boss - "Well, if the company nurse comes by, tell her I said
never mind."
- Dilbert -
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