Win95 + irritable user WAS: Re: FS: Mac Plus

From: Alan Richards <alanr_at_morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
Date: Sun Sep 7 01:39:57 1997

At 06:36 PM 06/09/97 +0000, you wrote:

>stared, look, no cdrom. And I was told by her that her husband
>brought new system for her daughter at cool price of 8000 cdn and I
>wondered about that price because her daughter needs a pc for her law
>study at college, The typical use is WP use in that kind of area
>even a $500-1000 base pentium system would fit very well for that!
>Again with $8000, Easy to get 3 VERY decent P5 166/64mb/2.5GB/new
>complete systems with truck loads of legal software for each
>pc and a good laser printer or two to go with either two of them.

  Sounds like a candidate for the "Most Inappropriate use of Computer
Hardware Award" to me. A WP, you could stick WP5.1 on an 8088 if it comes to
that.
  
  Sounds like a member of the administration (who will remain nameless to
protect the moronic) at the university I waste money in. Just after
purchasing a spanking new Pentium 166 with 64mb and all the goodies,
including an ATI All in Wonder card (on our nickel I might add!), he asked
his secretary to scare up a new template for WP5.1, For this is all he used
it for! (where's my wailin' stick when I need it :)

>as well. I want none of that ideas that Mr. Gates and funny PnP,
>winmodems that came out. I do not understand this.

  I stay away from anything that uses "win" as a prefix. What, no jumpers?
Basically if Win95 can't get it to work on whatever IRQ or port that the
device wants, your screwed.

>This win95 (blows) leads to other options which I am looking at
>linux. Linux is very promising and I am learning to use it, trying
>to upgrade my old 2 4+ yr old 386 portables first also currently
>learning on my other pentium 75 o/c'ed to 100 lunchbox. Then install
>it on main pc when I feel more confident to put it to real use. :)

  Looking for a UNIX like OS for you 386? Why don't you get MINIX? A lot
less overhead and pretty easy to set up. (not much out for it yet, put the
list grows everyday) You could even get a version of Xwindows for it, and
MINIX will run on an XT! (two versions, i86 and 386)

  Speaking of UNIX-like OS's, anybody remember Sundown drives which came
loaded with Venix86? I believe a company called Unisource sold them. I
wonder if there may be a 'virgin' drive somewhere just waiting to be used... ;)

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