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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.intel Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.dfn.de!Germany.EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!adt From: adt@netcom.com (Anthony D. Tribelli) Subject: Re: I have one thing to say about Windows '95 & FreeBSD Message-ID: <adtDE195B.GA1@netcom.com> Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.intel Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] 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> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 18:10:22 GMT Lines: 37 Sender: adt@netcom17.netcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:5403 comp.sys.intel:46790 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 -- ------------------ Tony Tribelli adtribelli@acm.org