I spent two years in Papua New Guinea in the mid 1980s using (and developing
on and for) an Altos 8000-10 using MP/M II. Mostly CB-80 with bits of
assembler. Interesting/fun times.
> Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science.
Totally agree with that.
Bruce.
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dmccunney composed on 2020-03-24 15:53 (UTC-0400):
> Felix Miata wrote:
>> I ran a 286 Altos Xenix multiuser in 1988 just fine, Unix-y enough I
>> couldn't tell
>> any difference from SysV.
> With what sort of hardware?
Based on the descriptions on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altos_Computer
dmccunney composed on 2020-03-24 21:59 (UTC-0400):
> SeaMonkey 2.X couldn't be built static.
Please reconcile this statement with the Mozilla folk's representation that
every
binary app downloadable from mozilla.org, including all SeaMonkey versions, is
static built.
--
Evolution as taught in pu
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 8:37 PM Rugxulo wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 12:31 PM dmccunney wrote:
> >
> > The person who passed it on said [Transmeta Crusoe] was "Slow, slow, SLOW".
> > No surprise - it came with WindowsXP SP2, and took *8* minutes to simply
> > *boot*, and a lot more to do anyt
On 3/24/2020 12:53 PM, dmccunney wrote:
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 1:48 PM Felix Miata wrote:
I ran a 286 Altos Xenix multiuser in 1988 just fine, Unix-y enough I
couldn't tell
any difference from SysV.
With what sort of hardware?
Xenix, if memory serves, began based on Unix System III and was
On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 8:52 PM wrote:
> Just a thought, some of us have old computers that we want to run freedos
> on. Running Linux on a Pentium 4 and trying to run Dosbox on top of that is
> going to be pretty have for that machine. Some people aren't grabbing a
> multi core modern computer w
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 12:31 PM dmccunney wrote:
>
> The person who passed it on said [Transmeta Crusoe] was "Slow, slow, SLOW".
> No surprise - it came with WindowsXP SP2, and took *** minutes to simply
> *boot*, and a lot more to do anything once up.
I heard that XP was designed to get to
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020, at 3:30 AM, dmccunney wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 11:52 PM wrote:
> >
> >... Puppy Linux is designed for older, less powerful hardware. (A poster
> on the Puppy forums described creating a dedicated media server based
> on Puppy that ran on an ancient Toshiba laptop w
Hello Everaldo,
please do not use screenshot files: The ones you used
were too small to read and using larger ones would make
your email too big for the list. Instead, copy paste
the text shown on screen :-) You can also redirect the
output of DOS commands like "tree > mytree.txt" and use
the te
Hello!
People, I installed FreeDOS 1.3 rc2 LiveCD ISO on VirtualBox Lubuntu 16.04
and the installer did all the proccess, but it didsn't configure the
network. I looked how the installation is now and I find somes files didn't
install ... So, how must I to do the configuration? In attachment, put
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 1:48 PM Felix Miata wrote:
> dmccunney composed on 2020-03-24 13:30 (UTC-0400):
> > mich...@robinson-west.com wrote:
>
> >> Linux won't run on a 286 or XT by the way.
>
> > *Unix* didn't run on a 286. There were a couple of attempts
> > (including one from AT&T) that died
Hello!
People, I installed FreeDOS 1.3 rc2 LiveCD ISO on VirtualBox Lubuntu 16.04
and the installer did all the proccess, but it didsn't configure the
network. I looked how the installation is now and I find somes files didn't
install ... So, how must I to do the configuration? In attachment, put
On Tue, 24 Mar 2020, Felix Miata wrote:
dmccunney composed on 2020-03-24 13:30 (UTC-0400):
mich...@robinson-west.com wrote:
Linux won't run on a 286 or XT by the way.
*Unix* didn't run on a 286. There were a couple of attempts
(including one from AT&T) that died horribly due to lack of
dmccunney composed on 2020-03-24 13:30 (UTC-0400):
> mich...@robinson-west.com wrote:
>> Linux won't run on a 286 or XT by the way.
> *Unix* didn't run on a 286. There were a couple of attempts
> (including one from AT&T) that died horribly due to lack of HW memory
> management. It only becam
On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 11:52 PM wrote:
>
> Just a thought, some of us have old computers that we want to run freedos on.
> Running Linux on a Pentium 4 and trying to run Dosbox on top of that is going
> to be pretty have for that machine.
I run an Android port of DOSbox on an older and less po
On 24/03/2020 00:05, mich...@robinson-west.com wrote:
I think I missed a command.com line in fdauto.bat where it still said
C:\... and that this is why fdnpkg.exe installed to the C drive.
If I'm wrong, why does fdnpkg.exe install to C:\ when I'm running on a
Zip disk mapped to A:\ by the bios
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