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Re: networking newbie cry for help

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From: Steve Parry
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 00:00
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On Fri, 20 Nov 1998 07:22:12 +0000, Bernard Peek <Bernard@shrdlu.com>
wrote:
>In article <36540db5.1928559@news.demon.co.uk>, Steve Parry
><spug@intlog.demon.co.uk> writes
>
>
>>Thanks, Tom. I am not sure that Linux/unix is the right OS for a
snip
>>I bought some machines from auction not long ago they had 50 MB HDDs,
>>and had been networked together, running windows. How could they have
>>run say MS Office on this kit?
>
>I worked on a site that ran DOS and Office 3 on diskless workstations.
>They had no hard disk at all and the floppies were disabled by software.
>
>I'm not sure whether Microsoft's Terminal Server system would run with
>only 50Mb of storage on the client. My understanding is that it requires
>a working Windows 95 installation on every client. I don't know whether
>that's possible in 50Mb.
thanks Bernard, and everyone who responded, I have got W95 on the
machines now (just two of them) and all is well (sort of).
See new thread below for more hopeless newbie Q's,
Thanks again,

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From: spug@intlog.demon.co.uk (Steve Parry)
Subject: Re: networking newbie cry for help
Date: 1998/11/23
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