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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
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Date: 6 Sep 1995 03:15:19 +0100
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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