Mail Archives: opendos/2000/10/28/20:29:42
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Patrick Moran wrote (tiny expert):
> This problem may not even be a DRDOS bug, but a Compaq compatibility
> problem. I really hate those computers and do not understand why anyone
> would buy one.
A lot of people simply don't know any better. Most of your average
computer megastore shoppers wouldn't know a Compaq from an interstate
compact.
I have been following this list for some time now, and for the most
part it seems to be a list for hackers (in the original good sense). I
subscribed because I don't like Windows and thought about trying to
install something on my home box (made out of parts by a mom-and-pop
shop) like DR-DOS. I prefer a command line, not a GUI. (I looked at
BeOS briefly -- very briefly -- and it looked like more of the same on
the surface.)
I am not a hacker, and all this talk about boot records and what
not is 100% perfectly legitimate but of little interest to me. I
recently bought Partition Magic and downloaded DR-DOS (7.02) but have
not tried to use them yet. (Partly lack of time and partly
trepidation.) First I think I need to get a new modem, as what came
with my box was apparently one of those cheesy "Winmodems." (BeOS
would not use it, and somebody on a BeOS list called it a Winmodem.)
But beyond that, I do not want to play with the computer as an end
in itself. All I really want to do is install DR-DOS, so I can use all
my old DOS programs instead of bowing and scraping to Windooozy, but I
don't want to wipe Windooozy clean off the box. (For one things, there
is one site I want to access from time to time which will refuse to
work with anything but Internut Exploder >=4.5 or Nutscrape >=4,
requiring that Java be enabled, and my company's intranet is set up so
that it simply will not work with anything other than Exploder >=4.)
In fact, I nearly bought a Compaq at a megastore until somebody
tipped me off against it. I wouldn't have know the difference myself,
and a lot of the buying public are the same. This list is rather
specialized, and the general public do not subscribe here. That is why
they buy Compaqs and the like.
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