On the 25/6/96  08:39, Bob waffled to Dieter..

 Hello Bob,

 BL> 3.  How the hell can a driver work? It doesn't get loaded until after
 BL> the BIOS has had a go, and by then it's too late. Or am I missing
 BL> something? 

 BL> ...[later]

 BL> Aha! I was missing something!

 Yeh, but we knew that all along ....

 BL> I've got it working... just like the
 BL> real thing. The real breakthrough was discovering that there was a
 BL> thing called MSCDEX.EXE. For some reason, DOS didn't instal it, but
 BL> there it was... lurking on the original discs unused and alone. Gee!

 I think DOS may detect if there is a CD-Rom installed, and load
 the MSCDEX automatically, either that, or the CD-ROM install
 disks configure all that anyway.

 BL> This is alright, isn't it? All those megabytes! Who needs a hard
 BL> drive? And only $90! I don't know how they do it for the price.

 The chinese are fiendishly clever.

 DM> Win95 itself was only 65megs, and I thought, naively it seems,
 DM> that double that should be adequate. I was wrong. Duh.

 BL> ROFL! That's what happened to my wondows/system directory. For years
 BL> I went really well with a 7Mb cut-down Windows, but then I started
 BL> installing compilers and I've got 20 Mb of DLL's in there and I
 BL> haven't got a clue what anby of them do.

 Try a de-installer - they have some success at removing unwanted
 DLL's.

 DM> What else gives good head and costs less than $6.00 per week
 DM> :-)

 BL> A sheep?

 A bargain at that price, and better than a wife - it will cut
 the grass too.

 Dieter
 

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