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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: I have one thing to say about Windows '95 & FreeBSD
Date: 29 Aug 1995 09:35:10 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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In article <adtDE195B.GA1@netcom.com>, Anthony D. Tribelli <adt@netcom.com> wrote:
>
>I guess your "fantastic" demo needed to access memory using the obsolete
>EMS scheme rather than XMS? Just what change did you make?
Perhaps, but since DOS/Windows apps (commercial, shareware, or
whatever) rarely ship with source, it would be rather difficult to
fix the problem. ;-)
>: But a typo in my config.sys prevented me from running Win95...
>
>Couldn't step through and skip that line?
I assume if Win95 were smart enough, it would allow you that
option, but I assume it is not (or else Amancio would have tried
that). In any case, skipping a critical but mistyped line may not do
you much good anyway.
>: ... So I booted my system to FreeBSD access
>: my dos disk and fixed my config.sys...
>
>Can't boot to the command line and run edit?
Not always possible, depending on the state of you config.sys or
whatever else Win95 needs to boot.
>I'm sorry, I forgot, you prefer UNIX. I guess you are used to do things
>the hard way :-).
I'll take 'vi' over DOS 'edit' for a combination of ease-of-use
and power any day of the week. ;-)
>I'm sure Win95 is far from perfect. But the first couple version of
>FreeBSD crashed during installation on my VLB 486DX2-66 system, I wonder
>if it works yet? Win95, WinNT, OS/2, and linux do.
IMO, FreeBSD works a hell of a lot better than most commercial
UNIX-like OS's do. Far more robust, efficient and crashproof than
Windows '95, even though Microsoft has spent billions of dollars and
god-knows how many tens (hundreds?) of thousands of man-years
developing the darn thing. I'll even put up FreeBSD against an NT
or OS/2 server performing typical Internet service tasks to see who
comes out ahead in both raw performance as well as price/performance.
NT as a UNIX killer? Not if the free OS's can help it. :)
>I think the UNIX consultant needs a Windows consultant :-).
So much for Windows being easy to use. ;-)
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org