Abiword or Kwork can open Ms Word files. Or you could just save them in RTF
which can be opened by anything. I my self am at Sixform an my school have a
windows NT network with word 2000 and there is not a drop of windows on my
box anymore.
Mark Hillary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Goldenpi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 8:19 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
> I installed 98 after melting my P200MMX in the laptop. I just wanted to
get
> it up to 166. It should have worked but I didn't know the core voltage was
> too high. I thought it was just a cooling problem and tried to fix it by
> stuffing the heatsink with thermal paste. I ended up buying a p166 with my
> birthday money and that will do 166 easy. So now I have bindows 98 on it.
I
> want to put on mandrake 7.1 but the hard drive is only 1 gig. I need 98
for
> school. They insist I use a popular word processor and that means word.
Soon
> as I get enough for a bigger drive its getting linux.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mark Hillary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 5:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
>
>
> > Windows 98 doesn't run on 166Mhz, the install program doesn't allow the
> > install.
> >
> > Mark Hillary
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "goldenpi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 3:08 PM
> > Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
> >
> >
> > > Look at this number sequence:
> > >
> > > 512k
> > > 1m
> > > 4m
> > > 8m
> > > 32m
> > >
> > > see how quickly it goes up? They are the memory requirements for
> windows.
> > dos
> > > would word with 512k. windows 3.11 needed 4 meg. windows 95 needed 8
> meg.
> > > Windows 98 needed 32Meg. Whistler will need so much people will have
to
> > buy
> > > more.
> > >
> > > And look at processers:
> > >
> > > dos : 8086
> > > win3.11 : 80286
> > > win95 : 80386
> > > win98 : unknown
> > > win me : 166MHz
> > >
> > > thats enough that I managed to fty my laptop processor when I tried to
> > > overclock it and run windows me. It cost £25 for a new pentium 166.
> > >
> > > On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, you wrote:
> > > > Romanator wrote:
> > > > > Revenant wrote:
> > > > > > Clarification: Millenium is MS eking the last $$$ it can out of
> the
> > > > > > dying Win9x OS. Whistler will be what Win2000 was supposed to
> be -
> > the
> > > > > > fusion of the NT line with the Win9x line. It is supposed to be
a
> > very
> > > > > > different beast to the Win9x line, including ME...
> > > > > Have you noticed that the OS is getting bigger and bigger? They
are
> > > > > pushing our resources to their limits.
> > > >
> > > > <shrug> Our resource limits are increasing. Most software aims
to
> > > > take maximum advantage of the hardware available. Now that the
> industry
> > > > standard machine is a PIII, I'd be disappointed if the OS didn't
have
> > > > additional functionality.
> > > >
> > > > That said, Windows *does* seem to have more than its fair share of
> > > > bloat...
> > > >
> > >
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> > > Goldenpi - linux user, unreal editor, programer in 3 languages and all
> > round
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> >
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