Subj : Thin client PC to run MS-DOS
To   : Lordwoodoo
From : Denn
Date : Tue Nov 25 2025 13:19:27

>   Re: Thin client PC to run MS-DOS
>   By: Denn to Lordwoodoo on Mon Nov 24 2025 01:03 pm

> Well, I would suggest to install both, and even Windows 3.1 on the MSDOS
> partition is a cool thing. I will explain why later. It is always good to
> have a pure MSDOS. In that case, you need to part the hard drive in 2
> partitions. One for MSDOS, 2 gb max, and the second to install Windows 95.
> See the max capacity limit for Windows 95, and if the hard drive have more
> space after that, you will have more space to create one more partition for
> data for exemple: games or software, etc.. for Windows 95. A very important
> thing is: you need to create 2 primary partitions to be able to boot both!!
> Before doing the installs. FDISK or Partition Manager will do the trick using
> a floppy drive or a CDRom device.  

> Installing Win 3.1 on the MSDOS partition does not affect the previous MSDOS
> installed, and its cool if you want to boot Win 3.1 and use MSDOS in windowed
> mode over it. You can take notes with notepad, for exemple playing Zork..
> have multiple MSDOS windows opened, etc.. Really cool!


I'm leaning towards just installing DOS 6.22.
I Remember when Windows 3.0 came out, i bought it and then I upgraded to 3.1,
never really liked those 2 versions,  they were basically DOS shells, in dos I
used a program called xtree.

I remember my 1st DOS machine, it had a whopping 20 mb hard drive. Then I bough
my 386 sx that had 40 mb hard drive.

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