> Swap was 40mb was 40mb is all cases. W95A is not the fasest version. I
> used W95C without IE/WOW/Plus packages installed and NS3.01 as the browser
> makes a huge difference hence my comment (tuned). The hotest W9x setup is
> W98se stripped and the W95A shell. You need both and something called
> 98lite20 to build it. It's akin to doing a system specific build under
> linux.
Getting W95C legally was difficult if you're not an OEM or buying it with
hardware. I'm going to look at 98lite20. I've been pretty pleased with
the performance on Win98.
> > Linux isn't really an OS release. That's why I prefer *BSD
> > which are OS releases rather than this kernel with that addon toolset
> > with those other apps.
>
> Freebsd is better from my experience. I've run that on EVERYthing from
> 386/16 (4mb ram) up and it is clearly faster than linux, win9x or NT.
> At least for the 2.2.6 release.
Actually, I'm wondering if the FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 would run on some of
the new hardware. I've got a tape of it and I'm thinking about
building it.
>
> > I find that it's not too hard to mix and match most apps with any Linux
> > version. One DUMB setup script file edit makes WordPerfect office play
> > nice with Caldera's 2.x.
>
> Which WPoffice? I have Caldara Openlinux 2.2 and 2.3 and WP8 is fine
> under KDE. Just has a huge footprint on teh disk though.
Word Perfect Office 2000... It's huge (the full load of the Professional
version is around 340mb).
> > Yup... of course the IOBYTE version of Kermit worked with the VT180
> > in S-L-O-W fashion... the customized non-generic version was much nicer.
>
> Only if IObyte was implemented (often it was not). There were a lot of
> poor BIOS implmentations that really hurt the performance and useability
> of CP/M. lack of typeahead was my pet peve due to lack of interrupts
> and poor modem performance (same reason).
The VT180 was one of the best CP/M machines to use. Typeahead,
good hardware, a great screen and the best keyboard. Just too expensive
for most people.
>
> Allison
Bill
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Received on Mon May 08 2000 - 18:55:20 BST