Hello Nicholas!
On Mon 26 Jan 1998 at 10:58 you wrote the following to Mike Bilow:
 MB>> You would probably learn a lot with a Linux machine, and you
 MB>> could use almost any old 386 with 8 MB RAM to do it.
 NC> Hmmm... can Linux act as a file server for the network?  (NT WS and
 NC> Win95 machines)
Yes. You need to get the Samba package, which basically emulates a 95/NT/MS 
Lan Manager server with the SMB protocol.
 NC> Also, can it handle having two different NIC cards and two modems?
 NC> (ie, will it complain with non-standard IRQs)
Of course not :)
Linux can cope with all kinds of wierd things, including 4 IDE channels in 
one machine (i.e 8 IDE devices :-)
 NC> What version of Linux do you recommend?  RedHat, Slackware?
Matter of personal choice, really. Redhat is generally thought to be the 
generally easier to install one for "newbies" 
 NC> Can it be installed over a network (I have a CD-ROM drive only in one
 NC> Win95 machine).
Not from Win95 easily. Probably your best bet is to pull the CD drive and put 
it in your soon-to-be linux machine for the installation.
 NC> How well does DOSEMU work with communications ports? I run
 NC> my BBS system, and am a hub, how reliable is will things run in a DOS
 NC> window?
Reasonably. It's not completely stable.
 Will                                        
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