On 2004-07-11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <Day Brown> said: >Yes. I have os/2 warp 4, and I loved it. As you say, it was stable, >ran dos programs flawlessly, (and accessed them far faster than any >Linux or windoz emulator) and appeared to run 32 bit software with >less overhead than either windoz or linux. I see there is an >edition of Mozilla ported to OS/2.
How does Mozilla compare to Arachne? Net-Tamer worked right away without tweaking under OS/2, but I had to follow some extra instructions to get Arachne working (from the OS/2 manual... simple). >Alas, I cannot use it; it appears that all three of my local ISPs >use MS-CHAP, and I cannot logon with either DOS or OS/2. None of >the PPP drivers I've found for them can get past the >%ascend% >prompt. Sorry to hear that. My ISP uses Free BSD UNIX (and whatever that involves), and I've always been able to work with the any dialup device and modems as slow as 2400 kbps. >There seems to be some kind of planned obsolescence at work. None >of the Linux distros prior to 7 will logon either... Mandrake, Suse, >BSD, Slackware, Redhat, and Caldera all installed and booted the >system, but wont logon. Redhat 8 will, and so will Corel and >Xandros. Planned obsolescence serves *ONLY* business ends, not practical, consumer-serving progress -- and has no respect for quality; it only serves the almighty bottom line logic. Utterly shallow, in my opinion. >However, all this makes me wonder if a DOS internet could not be >formed using BBS software. Seems like with Long distance rates at a >nickle a minute, I could drop my local ISP, and call in to a BBS >host, download my mail for OFFLINE.EXE, and then upload my postings >at my next logon with maybe a quarter a day in charges, or $7.50 >per month. As long as they don't take away our telephone access... you bet! If we can still use modems over telephone lines (or whatever else), I'll certainly consider going back to BBS-style communications -- if they take away our ability to connect to the Internet with our choice of OSes. Jerry -- using his IBM PS/ValuePoint 433DX/Si | at the computer lab of ***** 33 MHz--12 MB RAM--502 MB HD--56kbps | Classic Systems, Ltd. Net-Tamer V 1.11.2 - Registered
