Old 486 computer & external CD reader advice needed

[Mike McCarty]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 11:24, Mike McCarty wrote:

>> But I don't want to drag a whole
>>UNIX environment into my Windows environment, any more
>>than I want to drag a whole Windows environment into
>>my Linux environment.
> 
> Actually both of those are very desirable things to have
> available.  The Cygwin X environment has been built
> so you can execute it from a CD: http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/.
> I don't know if they include bash in the package or
> not, but if not, a similar approach might work.

That looks worthwhile. I'll go have a look right now.

>>And right now *any* actual cost sounds bad to a
>>laid-off engineer.
> 
> 
> You need to find at least enough contract work to make
> some new toys tax-deductible .

:-)

Mike
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