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   Message 701 of 1,512   
   Ochal Christophe to Ben van de Echte   
   Re: XP vs AmigaOS   
   25 Oct 04 15:26:43   
   
   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:SfidnYO1SKTrI-ncRVnyrw@scarlet.biz...   
      
      
      
   >>What you would do on the Miggy (taken in account the usage of a HD disk)   
   >>would be to have the disk boot, expand an archive to RAM: or RAD: (after   
   >>mounting it) setup the appropriate assigns (s: t: libs: devs: c: ...) and   
   >>then issue LoadWB, or just leave the system assigns on the disk & expand   
   >>just the app(s) to RAM:, but that would consume to much space i think.   
   >   
   >   
   > That is what I found. The PPP clients on the Amiga are pretty resource   
   > hungry, or so it seems and without them I couldn't connect at all.   
      
   If you keep the core functionality, but remove ping, telnet etc, it is   
   doable i think, don't forget that, eg. the miami archive on aminet   
   provides all these aswell   
      
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