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   "Ochal Christophe"  wrote in message   
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   > Ben van de Echte wrote:   
   >> "Ochal Christophe"  wrote in message   
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   >>>Ben van de Echte wrote:   
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   >>>>"7 Habits Of Highly Effective Penii"  wrote in   
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   >>>>>tpalfrey@zool.com (Terry) wrote in news:97865901218   
   >>>>>@a1a65803.sympatico.bconnected.net:   
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   >>>>>>Noel  wrote:   
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   >>>>>>>On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 00:15:12 +0800, "Ben van de Echte"   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>wrote:   
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   >>>>>>>>The only thing silly off-topic is your pro-linux on PC rant in an XP   
   >>>>>>>>vs   
   >>>>>>>>AmigaOS advocacy thread.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>Who declared this an XP vs AmigaOS thread?  Did I miss something?   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>Some dork who thought he should compare a johnny come lately OS   
   >>>>>>and hardware configuration as the be all and end all when the Amiga   
   >>>>>>has been doing things far longer albeit in a different fashion.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>Non sequitur and strawmen are powerful arguments until they   
   >>>>>>are challenged for what they are.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>Terry   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>As soon as XP can run in one meg of memory with no hard drive, I'll   
   >>>>>consider looking at it.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>As soon as AmigaOS can boot from a floppy disc and do what QNX can do   
   >>>>you might have a leg to stand on. Until then, dream on.   
   >>>   
   >>>It might be possible to squeeze a part of AOS & a browser on a floppy   
   >>>drive :D   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Well I tried but never managed it. It wouldn't have been anything near as   
   >> elegant as the QNX demodisk even if it had been possible.   
   >>   
   >> There are a few graphical DOS browsers that will run from floppy, some   
   >> with mail and news as well.   
   >   
   > You would need to use RAD: or RAM: to expand the rest of the OS too, like   
   > QNX does IIRC, the same for DOS & dos based browsers, i know, because i've   
   > done these things for my work (got a bootcd that boots in DOS, but has   
   > access to ftp & www aswell as networkshares, oh, and it reads NTFS too   
   > (Read Only tho, for some reason the write enabled ntfsdos kept crashing)   
   >   
   > There are afew decent resources available on the 'net for this   
      
   Well it's piss easy to do on a PC, because I have booted DOS graphical   
   browsers from a single disk that even work on a stock 640k XT. I couldn't   
   find an Amiga graphical browser and suitable dialer that could be squeezed   
   onto a single DD floppy so it isn't easy, if it is possible at all.   
      
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