Hello Anthony - ---------- > Finally picked up a 16MB CompactFlash card, so that I could do some > additional testing. > > I set up the CF card on an CF-to-IDE adaptor,
I was pleasantly surprised to find that you have this for a legacy `386 machine! :-) I am very interested in what you are doing with this. Can you give out specifics about this adapter, cost, location, etc.? > installed MS-DOS 6.22, > and then installed Windows 3.1 to the CF card. Were these installed from the original installation diskettes or some other method? > I turned off virtual > memory entirely during the installation process, and did not install > the help files, to keep the installed size of Windows down. Hmmm ... long term when you want to use this W31 for Internet browsing etc. having only 8 meg might be a tight squeeze. Opera or Arachne would be OK with that amount of memory (I think?) but if you needed something line Netscape v4.08 for javascripting 8 meg would be difficult to work with IMO. > The computer being used is has an AMD386DX40 processor with 128KB of > cache memory, 8MB of DRAM on 30-pin SIMMs, and all I/O done via an all- > in-one IDE, floppy, serial port, parallel port ISA card, with a serial > mouse. Video via Trident 1MB ISA card. System video setting was left > at 640x480x16, and no additional drivers were loaded beyond the Windows > defaults. W31 Internet browsing is much better at 800x600 displays here but 640x480 is useable. [...] > Additionally, programs like Write, File Manager, etc. loaded much more > quickly, with File Manager hardly seeming to take any time at all. PeepHole also enjoys a much faster FileManager than a normal hard drive install. :-) > If I can come across a 128MB or 256MB CompactFlash device, I think I > might undertake setting up Win95 the same way, and testing, but I > expect very interesting results from it. I have read of ramdrive installs of W95 which makes me think you should have no problems once you have a larger CF card. Very interesting. I like what you are doing with this it seems to have some real potential. :-) Charles.Angelich DOS the Ghost in the Machine! Family And Friends wepages - Multimedia orginal stories with animation and sound, poetry, music, and photography: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/faf Tech pages for DOS and W31 at: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
