Mail Archives: opendos/2000/10/28/17:06:48.1
Hi Bernie,
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From: "Bernie" <bernie AT mbox302 DOT swipnet DOT se>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: About Micro$quash DOS 7 (hiding in Win98).
> >anyone running WINDOZE 95 and who does not want to upgrade to 98 or ME or
> >2000, should not even bother with AGP and USB. These are a pain in the
b*tt
> >for installing 95.
> AGP worked like a charm for me. Same goes for my friends that run win95.
Yes they work okay, but I said "These are a pain for installing in 95" You
have to do everything in a specific order and reboot after installing each
component. I have done many 95 re-installs and it is a very long procedure.
I should have clairified this to 95 OSR2. 95A did not seem to have these
problems. You could not use the update for USB and PIIX drivers after 95B is
installed. You can with 95A. Thus you have to install USB before you install
other drivers. Then PIIX drivers, then AGP, etc.
> >The Pro is also a screamer for
> >DOS.
>
> CAUTION! There are some DOS programs do not work well on Pentium Pros
(such
> as the Pentium Pro, II and III).
The II and III ARE NOT Pentium Pro. Do not confuse them. The II and III were
optimized for WINDOZE. i.e. instead of the hardware dictating things, now
the MS crap for software is dictating the hardware!!!!
> >Also a trick on how to use the WINDOZE 3.x Swapfile for
> >both Linux and WINDOZE 3.x and how to make a Linux swap partition and use
it
> >in both WINDOZE 3.x and Linux.
>
> I recently debated this on another list. In my experience (with NT 4, 9x
> and 3.x) the computer will be faster and more stable without a swap even
if
> you have much less memory than "required" and run several programs at
once.
What do you do when you run out of virtual memory???? The system will crash
and burn! I have run out of VM and 9x tells me to close applications. I
start closing them and by the time I get done I have closed them all and
still cannot run anything. I have not had this happen yet in NT. However, in
NT you can actually stop individual processes much like you can in Linux. 9x
is a piece of crap anyway. AT least when you get that Big Bad Blue Screen in
ME, you can actually recover. Although I did not use it long I had enough of
them to convince me to dump that piece of crap too.
Pat
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