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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!caen!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news.zeitgeist.net!usenet From: "Amancio Hasty, Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: I have one thing to say about Windows '95 & FreeBSD Date: 28 Aug 1995 22:11:57 GMT Organization: TLGnet, a division of RGNet, Inc. Lines: 73 Message-ID: <41tevd$1ff@kadath.zeitgeist.net> References: <41gceu$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> NNTP-Posting-Host: rah.star-gate.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) X-URL: news:adtDE195B.GA1@netcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:5412 comp.sys.intel:46815 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. -- Amancio Hasty Hasty Software Consulting Services Tel: 415-495-3046, Fax 415-495-3046, Cellular: 415-309-8434 e-mail: hasty@star-gate.com