Re: Life without Yarn...? (or shell accounts?)
From: Mark Landers (mlanders@netcom.com)
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 22:55:12 -0500
In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.980226204234.26423A-100000@chinet.chinet.com>,
"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.chinet.com> wrote:
:>From: Henrik Roseno <hero@isa.dknet.dk>
:>Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 01:13:14 +0000
:
:>BUT at the shell account of my ISP, web-surfing is only possible with
:>Lynx and text-mode. For about 6 months I have been more and more
:>irritated not to be able to see frames, java, "cookies",
:
:lynx accepts cookies
:
:>images etc.etc., so finally I decided to convert to PPP in January. This has
:>NOT been without several problems and hours of work:
:
:>1. I had to install Windows 3.1 on my 486-25MHz-PC. Until that I
:>only used DOS-programs! (If I had alot of money I would consider
:>buying a newer machine, a Mac or a PC with linux (unix) I guess.
:>Probably NOT Windows95.
:>2 . A had to buy 16MB ram, SIMM 30 pin modules, costing 100$.
:
:Memory's cheap. Why so much in Denmark?
:
:>It's nostalgic to say farewell to Yarn and I even get a little
:>sentimental, but cheer up! There is a life after Yarn!
:
:I'm glad you're pleased with your new setup, and enjoy Windows 3.1. I guess you
:haven't yet experienced your first General Protection Fault. (Windows 3.1 is
:still DOS, you know, but with a prettier interface. Even Windows 95 and NT
:preserved a significant amount of DOS code.)
:
:But, you could have had the best of both worlds. Why not just telnet into your
:shell account during a PPP session? You're not going to read your mail while
:surfing the 'Net, anyway. But you could with DOS in another Window.
:
Trapped in the tentacles of Micro$oft Windoze? Free yourself; go to
http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/ for DOS programs for the net, and
http://www.nettamer.net for a net-suite that runs under DOS, including
old palmtops.
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