Mail Archives: opendos/2001/03/12/04:22:22
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Joe.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Webb [SMTP:tawebb AT earthlink DOT net]
> Sent: Sunday, 11 March 2001 3:32
> To: DR
> Cc: DR-DOS
> Subject: Re: Toshiba PCM card drivers
>
> Since this thread seems to have stirred some response (for which I am
> grateful) I will pass on what we are doing for what it is worth.
>
> We have licensed copies of Windows31 that came from the Government along
> with a bunch of old machines. We install Drdos and windows31 on older
> machines. It is much faster than Win95 on the same machines, and there
> is a lot more sharware/freeware out there for DOS/Win31 than for Win9x.
> DRDOS/OPENDOS as a platform for Win31 smokes compared to MSDOS, and of
> course is free for our non-profit and school system clients. In
> applications with users that won't get all choked up if they don't see
> the MicroSoft logo, we put Arachne on the boxes instead of Win31; it
> makes a more stable machine and is bulletproof in a school lab.
>
> For Win31 over DRDOS, we use packet drivers, the winpkt shim for win31,
> and trumpet as the tcp/ip stack. Works fine with modems also, with
> trumpet running to the modem. Arachne has it's own stack, and requires
> only a modem or a packet driver. NCSA telnet and ftp, irc chat, mp3
> player, and all that good stuff are available as plugins for Arachne. In
> our applications, we run a linux server on the backbone to provide
> dhcp/bootp services so no one has to screw around with ip numbers.
>
[da Silva, Joe]
You can also make Arachne use 0.0.0.0 IP numbers,
by using the LSPPP packet driver (LadSoft), plus :
"http://jds-freeware.hypermart.net/lspppcfg.zip",
"http://jds-freeware.hypermart.net/patch17x.zip"
> Internet explorer 5.0 is available for Win31, as well as late versions
>
[da Silva, Joe]
Huh?! Where from???
Last time I tried to get this from M$, it downloaded a
"setup" program, which then was supposed to download
the real thing - only it didn't! When pointing this out to
M$, I really found out how stupid, incompetent and
useless they are!!!
When I was informed by someone that Tucows kept
their own copy - I managed to download this OK, the
problem then was that it failed to install ...
So, I never got to try out M$IE5 for Windoze 3.X - so
I'm amazed that you have managed it!!! :-/
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