Re: [Qn] System Setup, & What Linux ??

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From: Marcus Barczak
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 13:07

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s931306@yallara.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (Albert Hui) writes:

>Get a better mon for your card, TrueColor under 1024x768 is OK.
>As for CD-ROM drive, get a dual speed (eg. 562-B).

Note none of the current XFree servers support 24-bit truecolour
graphics.  My advice get a good monitor .. 15" preferably with high
bandwidth and sync frequencies to get the best refresh outta X

>DOSEmu is awesome!  They're working on full DPMI (for BCC, Windoze).
>Wine isn't ready yet.  Once I asked them why not port WABI, they said
>it's got many precompiled stuff, making it nonportable.

Yuck .. why run a crippled OS on top of a useful system.  If I wanna
run DrOS I just use the real thing.

>  2) install Linux on UMSDOS file system, a file system on top of FAT

Enjoy that crippled performance 

Mull
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