Re: Which 8-Bit system is "the most" gay ???

[Ian Malcolm <abuse@freeserveNOSPAM.net>]

Paul Schlyter wrote:
> 
> In article <k2gekzooubd.fsf@legolas.mdh.se>,
> Anders Carlsson  <anders.carlsson@mds.mdh.se> wrote:
> 
> > hawk@slytherin.ds.psu.edu (Dr. Richard E. Hawkins) writes:
> >
> >> One who willingly castrated himself could not enter Holy Orders;
> >> one who had been invoulntarily castrated could.
> >
> > In an attempt to bring this somewhat on-topic again; which computer,
> > chip or peripheral do you nominate as the most "castrated"? I don't
> > quite know, but my first thought is the 68008.
> 
> A modern Pentium III running plain 16-bit MS-DOS from a floppy only
> would be a good candidate.....  :-)
> 
> Or what about a modern Pentium III running an Apple II emulator?
> Those emulators are really pieces of "lobotomy software"....  :-)))))
> 

I like the PIII running DOS.  What about a PIII with a dos mode web
browser (DosLynx386 2.8.2R1) and a MS workgroups for Dos network server? 
The TCP/IP support for Lynx is handled by WATTCP running over a crynware
packet driver shim on top of Microsoft real mode netbios, coexisting with
the netbeui for the server.

It works, you can search google from it, download a file and even share
the download  directory and read the file from a windows PC but its a real
ballless wonder and about as stable as an elephant on a unicycle.  (I had
a slow week at work once and set it all up for a laugh)

Lynx isnt actually that bad.  Win32 Lynx is a decent plain text web
browser and will fit on a floppy if you trim the help files.  Can be
useful sometimes to have a private web browser sometimes that doesnt leave
footprints everywhere through the system.

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