Subj : multitask or die!
To   : Roy J. Tellason
From : Charles Angelich
Date : Tue Nov 27 2001 07:51 pm

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Hello Roy - 

CA>>> Switching to WFWG should solve the networking problem for
CA>>> me 

RJT>> Does it? 

CA>> Yes. 

RJT> What flavor of networking does it support? 

Several. 

RJT> If it's something that supports using Samba shares then I
RJT> could probably do something useful with it. 

SAMBA was the discussion at the time I was referred to free
downloads for WFWG networking. 

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CA>>> and would speed up my browser in the process. 

RJT>> Eh? How's that? 

CA>> WFWG uses VCACHE and VSHARE rather than the addon SMARTDRV
CA>> and SHARE.EXE from DOS plus it has both 32 bit disk access
CA>> and 32 bit file access which speeds up virtual memory swap
CA>> file access and writing/reading of browser temp files. 

RJT> Ah. I'd forgotten about that stuff. 

Most have forgotten. 

CA>>> If FTP servers continue to erase DOS and W31 files I will
CA>>> be painted into a corner eventually and have to bail just
CA>>> to find software when I need it. 

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RJT> It'd be nice if they'd give some notice, maybe, and then
RJT> we could put that stuff elsewhere. 

IBM did notify user groups that they were about to erase PS/2
config and driver files (think it was six months advance
notice?). 

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RJT> Sounds like those removable bays I saw mentioned somewhere
RJT> might be handy for you. 

I initiated that discussion in the TECH echo about a year or
more ago, remember? 

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CA>> I have links to the remaining free version of CP/M v2.2 at
CA>> my website. If there is a way for people to download your
CA>> files tell me what that is and I will include that
CA>> information along with the download links on my website. 

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RJT> Eventually I suppose I'll be "on the 'net" somehow or
RJT> other. I wouldn't mind getting a hold of that free version
RJT> of 2.2, if that's possible (incoming%tanstaaf@frackit.com
RJT> for files headed this way :-) 

Check my website for the link. 

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RJT> This parallels roughly a discussion that I was having in
RJT> just the past few days in the electronics echo. It's not
RJT> that people don't want to take the time to do things that
RJT> way, it's more that people want to be able to _use_
RJT> whatever it is sooner. 

Embedded software continues to be done that way AFAIK. 

RJT> It used to be way back when that machines were very
RJT> expensive and the programmer's time wasn't worth all that
RJT> much,  and now it's the other way around, hardware just
RJT> keeps getting cheaper all the time and people's time,
RJT> especially when somebody is paying for it, is much more
RJT> expensive than it used to be. 

IBM shipped in programmers from India and now it seems they
like to get people from Russia. They work for less money, few
fringe benefits. ;-) 

RJT> My old CP/M boxes had 64k of ram, though one has 128K, and
RJT> maybe 2k or 4k of video ram. 

My version of OS9 lvl II runs on a 64K memory Color Computer.
;-) 

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