Re: Need TI-86 Shell or OS

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Subject: Re: Need TI-86 Shell or OS
From: n X t <nxt@JUNO.COM>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 19:59:25 EDT
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Reply-To: n X t <nxt@JUNO.COM>

On Thu, 28 Aug 1997 19:58:07 GMT Reinier Zwitserloot
<R.Zwitserloot@BTINTERNET.COM> writes:

hmm we dont' really care. hmm im thinking that.. that line was a PERSON'S
SIGNATURE LINE... gee don't reply to the SIGNATURE LINE.. gee hheeh yer
just wasting other ppl's time and yours.. and off topic too

>>And you can start all Windows' programs from the DOS command line.
>
>Correct. In fact, that's exactly how I run windows 95. Explorer
>doesn't exist. I don't have a taskbar, nor do I have a start menu. The
>background is black. No desktop. Upon hitting ctrl+alt+del to see
>what's loaded, the box is completely empty, aside from 4dos.com. My
>harddisk never runs all over itself writing for hours (swap file
>stuff), and I can start the whole office97 suit in 2 seconds.
>
>This is on a pentium 133. Imagine what a 'shell' does to a simple 6
>Mhz Z80 based calculator.
>
>NB: True, the starting stuff took me longer. I programmed a fairly
>simple tsr that displays a small dialog box with the start menu in
>text (with long filenames too.) however, that takes considerable
>space.
>

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Need TI-86 Shell or OS

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Re: Need TI-86 Shell or OS

From: Reinier Zwitserloot <R.Zwitserloot@BTINTERNET.COM>