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- From: laurent@babbage.csus.edu (Laurent Chavey)
- Subject: Re: Version 1.6.24b upgrade problems
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.210111.27640@csusac.csus.edu>
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- Organization: California State University, Sacramento
- References: <HEIM.93Jan7115122@spike.peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> <1993Jan07.202941.15013@crash>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 21:01:11 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan07.202941.15013@crash> cwr@crash.cts.com (Will Rose) writes:
- >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
- >
- I also have on old XT, and up to now I am very satisfied with what minix
- has provided me with.
- I tried to install bsd on my 486, and it is anything but trouble. I do not
- have time for installation, being a student my main concerned is in learning,
- minix is such a tool. It is not intended for profit, or real world application.
- It is a platform for learning.
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