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From: adt@netcom.com (Anthony D. Tribelli)
Subject: Re: I have one thing to say about Windows '95 & FreeBSD
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Amancio Hasty, Jr. (hasty@rah.star-gate.com) wrote:
: At any rate, I decided to try a fantastic DOS demo called 2reality and it
: didn't
: work because it didn't have enough memory (my system has 32mb)...

I guess your "fantastic" demo needed to access memory using the obsolete
EMS scheme rather than XMS? Just what change did you make?

: But a typo in my config.sys prevented me from running Win95...

Couldn't step through and skip that line? 

: ... 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?

I'm sorry, I forgot, you prefer UNIX. I guess you are used to do things
the hard way :-). 

: 	Now this is *real* progress!
: R)try, A)bort F)reebsd ?

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. 

: Amancio Hasty
: Hasty Software Consulting Services

I think the UNIX consultant needs a Windows consultant :-).

Tony
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Tony Tribelli
adtribelli@acm.org