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In article <1993Jan5.000106.17939@dmp.csiro.au> lachlan@dmp.csiro.au
(Lachlan Cranswick) writes:

>leo@rulhp2.leidenuniv.nl (L. Mekenkamp) writes:

>>>My girlfriend owns a dinsosaur of an IBM compatible...

[SNIP, SNIP]

>>Not neccecarily; you just *might* have a real indestructible IMB-PC.

Yeah!, that's right. My PC's are my 1982 IBM PC, a 1985 UNIX PC, and a
Toshiba 1000 laptop.  By "dinosaur", you were no doubt refering to the
indestructible nature of the IBM.

My IBM PC has been flipped on and off daily for 11 years without one
problem.  It runs the MKS toolkit over DOS 3.3, and does just fine at
matrix calculations in APL (with Fortran calls).  It runs its applications
(including TeX and XyWrite) and a graphics tablet without a problem.

[Last night I fixed a friend's new state-of-the-art clone.  Pins and
gravity slots hold the backplane in place, so if the case were turned
it would fall out.  No problem, for the system had been mounted
upside-down in the case in order to put the fan at the top, where it
should be.  All that holds the backplane (with its 80486dx) in place
are the accessory boards.]

For someone who uses COMMAND.COM and DOS's accessory commands, the
only upgrade that would make sense would be to 4DOS.  But if the PC is
short on necessary tuning tools, such as a disk cache and
defragmenter, DR-DOS 6.0 might a bargain.  Otherwise, why change a
tool if it works?

Bruce Bathurst (Gypsy Scholar)
-- 
Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544
bathurst@phoenix.princeton.edu bathurst@pucc.bitnet !princeton!phoenix!bathurst