Re: Who still uses floppies these days?

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <e4cued$rjr$2@Kil-nws-1.UCIS.Dal.Ca>,
Richard Bonner <ak621@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote:

> Bible John wrote:
>> "Richard Bonner" <ak621@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote:
>>> Bible John wrote:
>> Newer computers are overkill for what some use them for. But then again 
>> today many are using them for music,video,etc..
> 
> ***  Sure, but music & video ran on computers in the 1990s. So much of the
> power of new computers is sucked up by bloated operating systems and
> anti-virus software.

You can always install your anti-virus software.  To make your computer
less vulnerable to viruses, without using anti-virus software, make sure
you always run as a user without administrative privileges - the only
exception should be when you really need administrative privilieges,
such as when you install new software.

>> Richard I know of a network PCMCIA card that is on clearance in a retail 
>> store around my area that has DOS and Windows 3.x drivers. You want it?  It 
>> costs $29.00 + tax. I can provide you the phone number of the store.  I 
>> thought about you and the HP200LX DOS group when I saw the card.
> 
> ***   Thanks, but my laptop has a network card.
> 
> 
>>> (*) A friend of mine has a 486 laptop he bought for $5. $7 got him a
>>> witeless card. He runs MS-DOS 6.2 and in areas with good conections,
>>> he goes from bootup to "Google" screen in 16 seconds!
>>>
>>> R.
> 
>> Richard would you mind posting screenshots of screen video clips of this?  I 
>> want to see this.
>>
>> John
> 
> ***   I can't do that here because this is not a binary group. The only
> screen shot available would be that of Arachne depicting the opening
> Google screen, anyway.
> 
>    That aside, when I get the instructions, I will be posting them here. 
> 
>          Richard Bonner
> http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/

...of course good ol MS-DOS doesn't know how to restrict the logged in
user's access to the computer --- it doesn't even know what a "login" is.
However, running MS-DOS is by itself a good virus protection these days,
in fact an even better virus protextion than running a Mac: no modern
viruses have MS-DOS as a target.

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