Unix vs. VAX/VMS and Windows vs. Unix/Linux/BSD -- seems like we'veseenthis before

From: allisonp <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Mon May 8 20:37:22 2000

>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.


Simple, buy 95b and hit their site for hte upgrades. Most of them are for
USB anyway.

>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.


Likely it would but you'd have problems with hardware that is not
supported as it didn't exist then.

>> 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).


I heard it was a monster. I know people that like WP-8 as it does things
format wise that Word cant and it's very useful to lawyers for that.

>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.


Yep, it's a winner. I have several (plus gave away a bunch more over the
years).
It's a nice machine to hack as well. Mods I've done include 6mhz z80, two
sided,
3.5" 781k/720k floppy and a romdisk/ramdisk. plus a bubble memory
interface.

The AmproLB is another really great CP/M engine with SCSI even. There
were some later designs like the P112 (from OZ) with a 16mhz Z180 IDE
and all the other goodies.

Another favorite is the Micromint SB180 with the scsi/com card 9.6mhz
64180 (z180) 256k ram FDC that works with any 8/5.25/3.5 disk and a
SCSI interface for hard disk.

Kaypros are OK, the display software is slow but they run well especially
if they have turborom installed.



Allison
Received on Mon May 08 2000 - 20:37:22 BST