From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Mon Jul 17 2000 - 00:50:42 EDT
Jonathan Berry wrote:
> On my 701 (obligatory Thinkpad content), I never have to boot
> into DOS. All the DOS apps I have run fine as windows under
> Win95. Even Ventura Publisher 3 (over GEM over DOS over Win95
> over DOS), and it runs speedily on this 486/75.
>
> Reboot every few days is way better than running an even more
> bloated OS. I've seen Win98 booting on 400 MHz Celeron class
> machines. It's way slower than my 701. What the heck is going
> on inside?
>
> >>I have a system that no
> >>longer needs to be reinstalled every couple of months. That is
> >>a relief. However, I find that I need to reboot every few
> >>days. It gets gummy in there.
> >
> > Perhaps consider Win2K. But with a 701 and presumably limited
> >memory...
>
> Tops out at 40 Meg. Win95a runs fine with 16 Meg.
>
> >that may not be a good idea. But you say you run a lot of DOS
> >apps, and having not run much of any kind of DOS apps in years, I don't
> >know whether or not Win2K's "Dos" capabilities would suffice.
> >
> >But you could still multi-boot into DOS when necessary
>
> Never has been necessary yet under Win95. A bit trickier under
> OS/2. The only problem with Win95a (with all fixpacks) is that
> after a while it gets gummed up (different thing every time)
> and after a few days rebooting cures all the gumminess.
>
> Oh yes, another problem I have is that I can't reboot the
> computer: it loops at the "wait" screen. I have to turn off
> the 701. Desktop reboots fine.
>
> >(which is
> >also true if you chose to use OS/2 or just about anything else that suits
> >your whims).
> >
>
> The "deeper" thinkpad content of this message is that the 701C
> can be a legit machine: fabulous screen, good stability,
> excellent suspend behaviour (even with PCMCIA cards in the
> slots), good keyboard (MMV), great BIOS and setup access, good
> sound, runs basic apps (email, browser, file manager, editor)
> plenty fast, can even do RealAudio (get older version 4, don't
> even think about version 6 or beyond), 6.4 GB hd and 40 MB RAM
> capacity. Just don't promote it to its level of incompetence
> (the Peter Principle).
>
> So, my wiener is smaller than yours but it is still a good
> wiener.
>
> --
> cheers
> Jonathan Berry
> http://www.islandnet.com/~jberry/ to know more than you want
-- Happy trails...** Bill Morrow ** :-) WEB page http://thinkpads.com e-mail: bill_at_thinkpads.com, penzance_at_gate.net
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