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Subject: Re: Dedicated Dos Computer?

Author: William H Rogers

Date: 14:13:00 11/24/98

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On November 24, 1998 at 10:35:57, Larry Oliver wrote:

>I have a good spare mother board and an AMD 300Mhz chip and am considering
>building a strictly DOS chess computer to house my two favorite programs, Rebel
>and MChess. Has anyone considered doing this? Any disadvantages? I think I can
>put the whole thing together for way less than $500. I would not need a modem,
>fancy sound, fancy color etc. Considering the strength and features of these
>programs, it would serve my chess needs far into the future.

Why don't you try what I did and install Partition It. That gives you the ablity
to install dos 6.2, win 3.1, or whatever in a seperate partition. When you boot
up, you have the option to boot to either one.
Hurray for dos. Windows does slow down most programs anyway.



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