Dos web browsing! *PIC*

[Chadder007]

Anyone up for Win3.1 and IE. 4.0 16 bit with web integration?

 

[Sketcher]

Very Cool! A "low tech" solution that was once "high tech"!

Much more impressive than Power Rig benchmarks.

Care to post your steps of implementation start to finish?

 

[Mucman]

dpm, I think I recall the same experience. I know Wing Commander was playable with the keyboard though. This bad boy has a gameport so I need to find me one of those old Gravis 3 button joysticks

Nohr, I got my TEMP variable mapped to a RAM drive. This makes everything nice and fast, but it means the cache is destroyed when I power down. Browsing is a tad slower because it converts all images to bitmaps, but once cached, the thing flies! Anandtech comes pretty darn fast for me.

Sketcher, everytime I do some sort of computer project, I look back and regret that I didn't journal the whole ordeal . I spent two full evenings getting this to work, so there were a lot of things that I had to troubleshoot. If I leave out all the troubleshooting I did, the process went like this :

oLoad NIC packet driver
oStart Arachne

Yes it is that simple . Of course, I had issues with my PCMCIA card reader in DOS, changing data types in the NIC's config utility, figuring out that my caching nameservers wouldn't resolve, adding I=B000-B7FF to emm386 gives me an extra 32K of UMB . The largest amount of time was realizing that I didn't need the Win Client 3.0 software installed (which lowered my conventional memory to 450K). There's more, but I don't think you need to suffer through the other bonehead mistakes I made

 

[Nohr]

Originally posted by: Mucman

Nohr, I got my TEMP variable mapped to a RAM drive. This makes everything nice and fast, but it means the cache is destroyed when I power down. Browsing is a tad slower because it converts all images to bitmaps, but once cached, the thing flies! Anandtech comes pretty darn fast for me.

Ahh yeah that'd help. My 386 only has 8MB, don't think I have enough room for a RAM drive. Well, maybe a 1MB one or something really tiny..

 

[ElFenix]

i wonder if my 486 can handle a 3 gig hard drive?

 

[Walleye]

Originally posted by: ChefJoe
That laptop probably screams with dos on it. My P150 Thinkpad with 48 mb of ram is what I'm typing on here at work...... so slow, win98se.

i hear your pain.

i had a p133 laptop, i dont know what memory, but also win 98 se.

slow as hell

made me so thankful to get my current computer.

2.66 ghz.
512 mb rd ram
radeon 9700 tx
120 gig hdd.
audigy soiund card.

a pretty big jump, wouldnt ya say?

i havent even tried to tweak it, and out of the box it got 13550 3d marks.

 

[Sketcher]

Originally posted by: Mucman Sketcher, everytime I do some sort of computer project, I look back and regret that I didn't journal the whole ordeal . I spent two full evenings getting this to work, so there were a lot of things that I had to troubleshoot. If I leave out all the troubleshooting I did, the process went like this :

oLoad NIC packet driver
oStart Arachne

Yes it is that simple . Of course, I had issues with my PCMCIA card reader in DOS, changing data types in the NIC's config utility, figuring out that my caching nameservers wouldn't resolve, adding I=B000-B7FF to emm386 gives me an extra 32K of UMB . The largest amount of time was realizing that I didn't need the Win Client 3.0 software installed (which lowered my conventional memory to 450K). There's more, but I don't think you need to suffer through the other bonehead mistakes I made

Not at all Mucman, no suffering here . All worthwhile reading. Just intrigued at the thinking that went into it and the troubleshooting that took place. Having you explain it helps me decide whether I should give it a go or avoid banging my head on the desk Pretty cool work. Thanks for taking the time to post and follow up!

 

[Mucman]

Nohr, Sure you can! You could make a 4MB RAM Drive with that thing. What else is the RAM going to be used for? Remember that DOS isn't a multi-user/multitasking OS so when you are running something, all free memory is available to that application (unless running some sort of multitasking software).

Elfenix, I believe a 3G drive will work. The drive partitions can be no larger than 2G, and you will have to use LBA so that the BIOS won't assume that drive is 512MB

Walleye, there are ways to making Windows 98 fast on a P133 . Or put Win95 on there if you can. I ran Win95 on a 486 and it seemed fast enough.

Sketcher, I am glad you enjoyed the fruits of my labour . Most people like to go out and get drunk on a Friday and Saturday night... I prefer to learn how to get DOS on the Internet

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

nuke dos! netbsd all the way!

 

[Nohr]

Originally posted by: Mucman
Nohr, Sure you can! You could make a 4MB RAM Drive with that thing. What else is the RAM going to be used for? Remember that DOS isn't a multi-user/multitasking OS so when you are running something, all free memory is available to that application (unless running some sort of multitasking software).

I suppose it couldn't hurt eh. I'll keep that in mind next time I'm incredibly bored and pull the 386 out again.