Greetings and Salutations,

     -=> Murray Lesser wrote to Linda Proulx <=-

 LP>How about a 10 year old?

 ML>     The longest that I have had a hardware system live is almost 12
 ML> years between birth and death.  And it was a top-of-the-line system

Ah! So was mine.  I had to insure it for $15,000 whan it walked into the
house (that of course included the software).


 ML>     I read somewhere (I think it was "Science" magazine, but I am not
 ML> sure) that CMOS circuits slowly deteriorate with usage, and most
 ML> desktop computers have a 10-year design life.  So have an escape path

Now that is interesting.

 ML> set up for when your ancient machine gives you the "replace system
 ML> unit" warning during POST and refuses to boot :-(.

I was working on trying to be able to add some stuff to the 386 when it
finally hit me in the face that that was an exercise in futility. Which
is why I now have this P unit. (which will take me forever to pay for)

 ML>     Are you really sure that you need Boot Manager and more than one
 ML> primary partition?  If the only reason you want to boot real DOS is to

The administrator in me wants me to keep my options open until
everything comes together.  And I think it will take a while for that
to happen.  Also considering future hardware I may have haved to have
win95

 ML> play some DOS games that violate the OS/2 system-integrity rules,

Not a gamer other than hearts or solitare.. 

 ML> OS/2.  I suggest that you try this before allowing DOS a permanent
 ML> berth, with all the grief that entails.  If it works, it would be a
 ML> much better solution than being forced to live with 1 GB FAT
 ML> partitions!!

Working on that.



Anon,

Linda

... Computer Lie #1: You'll never use all that disk space.
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