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- From: cwr@crash.cts.com (Will Rose)
- Subject: Re: Version 1.6.24b upgrade problems
- Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
- Date: 07 Jan 93 20:29:41 PST
- Message-ID: <1993Jan07.202941.15013@crash>
- References: <HEIM.93Jan7115122@spike.peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
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- Gerald Heim (heim@peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de) wrote:
- :
- : - Stay with 1.5.10 since this patching needs too much time even using
- : a 12 MHz-286. (Where are these masochists still using XTs? :->> )
-
- Right here - I bought an XT to a) run Lotus b) run Minix, and Minix
- on an XT is an awful lot better than DOS. It's actually a nice OS
- now things like communication programs have fallen into place. Still
- no decent spreadsheet, but 64KB+64KB is too small an address space
- anyway, same problem as CP/M. Furthermore, my XT works, and has done
- for four years now. The new, shiny 50MHz 486 they bought me for work
- roaches the DOS filesystem once a day or so, corrupts every file it
- edits, and won't accept a tape back-up unit. This after 3 trips back
- to the shop and about a weeks scuffling and cursing by yours truly.
- There's a moral to this story...
-
- Will
- cwr@crash.cts.com
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