...to pre MS Dos days when there were multiple competing OS's on the desktop.


We have been mucking around with various versions, brands and are finding that they don't all work as you would expect. Main problems seem to be recognising network cards and databases deployed to them.

Mandrake easy to install, flatly refused to recognise the lan card, even though NT, various MS Desktops, and versions of unix had no problems...

RedHat recognised the lan card but wouldn't run the database, in versions 7.0 and 7.1 but decide to partially run in 7.2

Suse just went and sat in the corner with the Tom Tits.


Are we headed back to the days of having a commodore OS, a BBC OS, CPM, Apple's weird thing, and a host of others



What's others expierances......