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   Message 706 of 1,512   
   Ochal Christophe to Ben van de Echte   
   Re: XP vs AmigaOS   
   26 Oct 04 09:04:50   
   
   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:pvSdncLXWbyOYuHcRVnyvQ@scarlet.biz...   
   >   
   >>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   
   >   
   >   
   > I couldn't get it to work and given that I haven't found anyone else who   
   > managed it...   
   >   
   > Want to be the first?   
      
   Maybe i'll try, right now i have to make a webbased addressbook system   
   with ldap connectivity (unless anyone inhere can point me to a decent   
   one that works properly?) but even if i try, the lack of modem does   
   prevent me from trying.   
      
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