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Hello Mark - 

ml>>> windows = too expensive = too many resources needed = old
ml>>> boxes are dog slow 

SH>> I must either be making too much money or have equipment
SH>> which has lots of oomph. My Windows 2000 has a ton of
SH>> resources, everything runs, and it was even relatively
SH>> cheap. 

ml> cheap depends on one's perspective... 

Steve just bought a V6. ;-) 

ml> w2k, wnt and newer stuff all manage the system resources
ml> differently than win9x ever did... we're speaking of memory
ml> and such allocations... i've one program here that is fine
ml> inder w2k  but is a resource hog under w98se... just
ml> loading it on w98se eats up 35% of each of the resource
ml> catagories that the resource meter shows... 

Is it possible you never tweaked your W98SE? 

ml>>> linux = too much of a learning curve = existing programs
ml>>> won't run = too geeky 

SH>> Does Linux not have a DOS box available? 

ml> yes and no... yes as in one can install DOSEMU... no in
ml> that its not link one might think... its kinda of like an
ml> addon in an emulated machine... you have an image of the
ml> DOS flavor you want to run and configure DOSEMU to load
ml> that in the emulation and run it from there... yes, DRDOS,
ml> MSDOS, FreeDOS, whateverDOS... 

At the project page for DOSEMU it warns that it 'may' crash
your hard drive. I hardly think it's ready for prime time just
yet. :-\ 

Plex86 is probably a safer bet but seems a bit difficult to
setup and use. 

ml>>> AIR, they are using some MSCHAP that's a buggar to
ml>>> authenticate thru... 

SH>> If he did not have to call long distance to do it, I'd get
SH>> him to call up here.:-) 

Nice of you to think of me but I'll slog along using local
calls. ;-) 

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