Yo! Terry:
Friday June 27 1997 16:46, Terry Bendell wrote to Moderator:
 >> Do NOT moderate.
 TB> Ok Bill, no problem, lets forget completley that I said that.
Hey, great!  Cool.  Thanks!
 TB> Say, what do you think of Linux? I have been thinking of running it
 TB> on and 486dx100 with 16 megs of ram, any experience with it or any
 TB> hints about installing it on a system such as this?
I dabbled with Unix a couple of years ago and an into a problem that you 
might encounter as well.  But some backgroumd is in order first.  Unix and 
its many flavors, including Linux, don't require lots of resources to 
operate.  Fer instance, a 386DX/33 machine with 4-Mb of RAM can run Linux 
just fine.  I ran real Unix on an old IBM RT (kind of like an XT) with 1-Mb.  
Your machine is probably just fine.
You have to have some disk space. though.....and I don't know how much right 
off.  Most specs will tell you, though.
Unix/Linux was once the universal language of not only the Internet, but also 
multi-tasking and multi-user platforms.  It isn't so universal anymore, but 
when it comes to networking on the cheap, I doubt anything can beat it yet.  
It is effective, efficient, reliable, and high performance.
That said and done.....I had a problem with learning a second, unrelated 
thing. I was and am committed to the Windows environment where, just like 
Unix, there is always something to learn.  Splitting my time between the two 
didn't do justice to either.  And then there was the matter of getting a 
machine to run Unix that wasn't needed for other things.  I said I had that 
old IBM RT and it was okay, but I had a chance to sell it for what I had in 
it, so out the door it went.
That's when I really couldn't spare another machine and precious disk and RAM 
resources just to mess with Unix/Linux.....so I gave it up for the time.  I 
would like to get into Linux still.....but I can't afford either the time or 
the hardware allocations that it requires.  For me, it's a back-burner thing.
For you?  I dunno.  But if you can afford the time and the machine, then I 
doubt you'll lose.  Unix isn't going to be outdated any time soon; not like 
DOS and CP/M.
 TB> Also have you ever heard of a web browser for a cp/m machine?
 TB> I am wondering if their is such a thing?
I haven't heard of one, but since there are some for DOS, I suppose there 
could be for CP/M, too.  At one time not so long ago, there was more software 
for CP/M than any other environment.  I'm sure DOS passed it by now and 
Windows, too.  I don't hear of CP/M aficionados like for OS/2, DOS, Amiga, 
etc....but if there are any, they'd know.
As for scanners and scanning.....there is almost nothing in terms of radio 
software available for anything outside the PC platform mix of DOS and 
Windows. I don't know of any control programs in Unix, Mac, Amiga, and 
Atari.... the old Commodore 64/128's and Apple II's were supported by radio 
software writers for a long time.  CP/M, of course, got a lot of attention 
from the Ham community for several years... until DOS entered the scene.
The simple brass tacks are that radio programs, info files, etc, are almost 
exclusively in the PC Windows and DOS environments anymore.  But Unix still 
has a deathgrip on the Internet.  Windows NT is moving it, though.
Bill Cheek ~ bcheek@san.rr.com
Windows 95 Juggernaut Team ~ Microsoft MVP
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