1. Re: the fate of a euphorian.
DITTO
$30 386 dos laptop
$150 win 95 desktop
$600+ winME desktop
thirdworld?
funny thing is for basic utilitarian programs, I can be up and runnig in 1/3
the time with
a dos laptop and have the same or similar functionality.
Swayze
mswayze at truswood.com
kswayze at bellsouth.net
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kat" <gertie at PELL.NET>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: the fate of a euphorian.
> On 11 Oct 2000, at 1:50, Euman wrote:
>
> > I like DOS too Jiri but face the fact thats in a few yrs
> > it probably wont exist....correct me if I'm wrong
>
> Feel free to feel corrected.
>
> If i need a dedicated box that is mission specific, not needing a fancy
gui, that stays
> up for years at a time, i'll put it on dos, written in Eu. Prolly MS-dos
too <sigh>, since i
> still can't get DR-dos to run here, and don't have the $$$ for the
professional ide for it. I
> have stacks of books on MS-dos.
>
> And some of those people in "third world" countries can't afford a $65 OS
from MS,
> even if they put their entire yearly wages towards it. Neither do they
need it in most
> cases. Same for the puter hardware, i'll bet most puters in Angola that
are not state-
> owned are 286 boxes.
>
> Dos doesn't need a harddrive to run on, an 8080 cpu with a one meg rom and
a few
> 100K of ram, and you have a useful handheld whatever. Or an embedded
controller
> card that will run forever without running out of resources.
>
> Kat
