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#! rnews 4578 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: I have one thing to say about Windows '95 & FreeBSD Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.intel Date: 6 Sep 1995 03:15:19 +0100 Organization: None Lines: 87 Message-ID: <42j07n$9qh@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> References: <41gceu$i14@mirv.unsw.edu.au> <41igjd$lif@nms.telepost.no> <41kal5$2um@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> <41m3at$vn7@lucy.swin.edu.au> <41qk39$16f@kadath.zeitgeist.net> <adtDE195B.GA1@netcom.com> <41tevd$1ff@kadath.zeitgeist.net> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:5841 comp.sys.intel:47861 Amancio Hasty, Jr. (hasty@rah.star-gate.com) wrote: : adt@netcom.com (Anthony D. Tribelli) wrote: : >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? : Hey, I did not write the demo and it was written in 93 if that matters. : As for 2reality being good, consider this the demo was demonstrating real-time : 3d graphics with texture mapping and pumping out dolby surround sound : streams thru my gravis ultrasound. All this long before DOOM. : >: 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? : At any rate, you miss the point. If Win95 had been smarter and detected that : it failed to start previously it should have given me a pointer to boot to : dos or display "hit F8" to boot to dos. : > : >I'm sorry, I forgot, you prefer UNIX. I guess you are used to do things : >the hard way :-). : I got to admit that in FreeBSD mounting a dos disk and then editing a : DOS file is very, very, difficult 8) : Or, you mean that I like the most bang for my dollars ... : Look , a few years ago , I was looking into buying a PC and runing an OS. : I didn't care if it was Windows or Unix. My solution was to run 386bsd which : now evolved to FreeBSD. The extra dollars that I saved on buying what I would : consider part of the standard OS distribution, I invested on my hardware. : >: 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. : Look, I don't consider an OS distribution which has been tested with : 400, 000 users your typical first release of an OS. Not to mention the : millions of dollars that went into its development. : As for FreeBSD not working for you, I don't know what was your problem : over there. This system is churning away in FreeBSD. Try installing FreeBSD : again and if it fails just mail to freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org and we will do : our best to *support* you. : Check out http://freebsd.cdrom.com is a P90 with 58 gig of disk : running FreeBSD. freebsd.cdrom.com serves up to 300 ftp connections and : is one of the biggest ftp servers in the Net. Not bad for an OS distribution : which sells for $39 or you can download it for *free*. : >I think the UNIX consultant needs a Windows consultant :-). : Not really , I am just playing with Win95 to check out what all the hype ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ : is all about. I gave up smoking a while ago, just after a friend of mine. Recently, he had "just one" cigarette. I didn't 'cos I believe that "just one" will lead to "just another". Now wouldn't it be a shame if you got a taste ! It's _BAD_ for you ! And besides, what if your mother catches you ! Use the real thing ;-) The friend is now smoking again (temporarily of course). He is also running W95. This article is being posted from FreeBSD. : -- : Amancio Hasty : Hasty Software Consulting Services : Tel: 415-495-3046, Fax 415-495-3046, Cellular: 415-309-8434 : e-mail: hasty@star-gate.com Brian