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   Ochal Christophe to Ben van de Echte   
   Re: XP vs AmigaOS   
   25 Oct 04 15:25:21   
   
   XPost: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy, alt.os.linux   
   From: co@nospam.orelse.fem.be   
      
   Ben van de Echte wrote:   
   > "Ochal Christophe"  wrote in message   
   > news:SfidnYC1SKRRIOncRVnyrw@scarlet.biz...   
      
      
      
   >>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.   
      
   It's only piss easy if you use a prefab disk image :P   
   As for the miggy. the issue isn't somuch finding the tools, but   
   squeezing them on a disk, DD is to small for this both on PC & Amiga   
      
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