36_5130@uwovax.uwo.ca (Kinch) (09/13/88)
Well flame me if you like but please help me as well!
I just bought my first computer, a Packard Bell 80286 semi-ibm
compatible, and it has Ms-dos 3.21 on it. I wnat a real operating
system to work with and I want to pay nothing for it! ( I is nothing
but a lowly broke student again ) MINIX seems to be my best bet but I
dont know how to get it. I have a MINIX fileserver (or some such
thing) which had all sorts of neat patches and upgrades and tools and
stuff but it did not seem to have the source or executable for
starting out. Could some kind soul out there in NETLAND point me in
the right direction? I do not have access to an INTERNET so annonomous
ftp is no good to me.
As an aside, and of interest to some, on my harddisk resides a
program called EBL (Extended Batch Language) [yeah, I bought a
slightly used computer, so whats it to ya]. This is a nifty language
which makes MS-DOS almost likeable. It has stacks, screen management,
if-then-else statements, and gotos (yuck) and 15 extra global
variables (%A to %O). I am sure that there is much more to this yet
but as I said I have not had this machine for very long. Has anybody
else heard of this? I would appreciate some comments as to its
usefullness. It sounds great, but I am a little doubtful. What I would
like to do is do some background jobs but I dont think it has that
capability.
Any help on either of these topics would be greatly appreciated.
E-mail me and I will summarize if there seems enough interest.
Dave Kinchlea 36_5130@uwovax.uwo.ca (BITNET if I
understand e-mail)
davek@julian.uwo.ca (UUCP dito)
Was full time summer program consultant, now back to lowly, dirtbag cs
undergrad.
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario
Canada