Re: OT: BeOS info

2002-07-02 Thread Thomas Mueller
> Opera 6.0x has usenet. It´s email part works quite nice. It would be better if it did straight ASCII 39 apostrophes instead of these screwy upper-ASCII things that look like something else, depending on the viewing software. In this case the apostrophe shouldn't be there at all (possessive its

Re: OT: BeOS info

2002-07-01 Thread lima
28/06/2002 02:38:46, "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Excerpt from Day Brown: > >> So, a modular system, that did the text in text mode, and the >> surfing in gui would make more sense. Arachne came pretty close, >> but my local isp did something, and dos wont logon any more. >> Even

Re: OT: BeOS info

2002-06-29 Thread Day Brown
Kali McLaughlin wrote: > Our comment on all this is that OS/2 is the all round winner!. James has > been using it for years, and claims that it is - > > a/ The interface is object oriented, useful and consistent. > b/ It not only runs odd dos programs, but allows them access to your > large driv

Re: OT: BeOS info

2002-06-29 Thread Kali McLaughlin
Der List: Very good topic, and not that OT. > Yes, rebooting is extremely frustrating. So use DOSEMU. It seems to > work well and is constantly being refined. Mine's V1.0.2-1. Runs > Wordstar, oldish orcad, Xtree, Pictview I haven't cracked port usage > yet, but no doubt there's a way. Our c

Re: OT: BeOS info

2002-06-27 Thread Thomas Mueller
Excerpt from Day Brown: > So, a modular system, that did the text in text mode, and the > surfing in gui would make more sense. Arachne came pretty close, > but my local isp did something, and dos wont logon any more. > Even so, it wouldnt do usenet. Which is kinda curious for a tool > for lower

Re: OT: BeOS info

2002-06-26 Thread Thomas Mueller
to Dean Coffey: Thank for the info on BeOS. There is also http://www.beosonline.com/ which is mostly in German but has download links for a developer update to BeOS, about 170 MB download which would be burned to CD, rather a bog download if you have only 56K dialup line. For Arachne users, thi

Re: OT: BeOS info

2002-06-26 Thread Day Brown
I can understand the need for a gui if I'm pulling up webpages or scanning images. But one of the things I liked about Nettamer was that the color ansi menu system left more lines of text on the screen, and if what you are trying to do is do email, that's a good idea. Suse comes with 'mail clien

Re: OT: BeOS info

2002-06-26 Thread Edenyard
On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 01:16:28 -0500, Day Brown wrote: > Well, what I've been kinda watching for, is an os that'll > run those things I cant find dos drivers for. like a scanner, > digital camera, or functional secure creditcard online and a > news/email/browser package. > I was looking for exa

Re: OT: BeOS info

2002-06-24 Thread Day Brown
Dean Coffey wrote: > > >So, does BeOS have a dos emulator? How difficult is it to s > >switch from one os to the other? > > The Bochs x86 emulator has been ported ( http://www.bebits.com/app/279 ), > although I haven't tried it as of yet. With 30 minutes or so worth of work > and 2 or more hard

Re: OT: BeOS info

2002-06-24 Thread Dean Coffey
>So, does BeOS have a dos emulator? How difficult is it to s >switch from one os to the other? The Bochs x86 emulator has been ported ( http://www.bebits.com/app/279 ), although I haven't tried it as of yet. With 30 minutes or so worth of work and 2 or more harddrives, you can have a multi-bo

Re: OT: BeOS info

2002-06-24 Thread Day Brown
So, does BeOS have a dos emulator? How difficult is it to s switch from one os to the other?

OT: BeOS info

2002-06-24 Thread Dean Coffey
>to Dean Coffey: >Now you have me curious about BeOS, its future and where and how to get it, >and >will it boot with LILO. I heard about Be Inc going out of business, being >sold >to Palm who were not going to contiune developing BeOS. >What kind of web browsers are there for BeOS, and how d