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To: Biggie Smalls who wrote (8278)	2/14/2000 10:47:00 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110626

hey fred, i don't know dos from floss, but i came across some interesting utilities in my travels. perhaps this is what you need, or others at the site may suffice. this one says it will: "CONFIG-Highlights: 1.Shows ISA, EISA, MCA, VLB and PCI Mainboards 2.Shows chipsetdetails on Intel 430TX,HX,VX, SIS501, SIS5501 ... 3.Identifies over 380 vendors of PCI cards, rev number ... 4.Identify processor caches and their size (8-512 KB) 5.Tell a DX from a SX CPU, identify NexGen586, Cyrix6x86, PentiumII 6.Identify VGA- card manufacturer, chip-set and BIOS version. 7.Identify over 600 expansion cards in Microchannel (MCA) systems 8.Identify a variety of harddisk cache software 9.Show HI-DOS memory under DOS 5, 386MAX, QEMM386 and MOVE'EM 10.Find areas of memory of different speeds in the first megabyte and in extended memory 11.Identify SCSI HD-controllers and their manufacturers 12.Establish the rotational speed of the harddisk 13.Display the name, cache size and contoller version IDE harddisks 14.Identify the frame speed for VGA cards* 15.Speeds up Cyrix/TI/IBM CPUs 5-10% by activating the NegateLock pin*" holin.com more dos programs (including some utilities) here: opus.co.tt hope this helps :) mark

To: Biggie Smalls who wrote (8278)	2/21/2000 1:34:00 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110626

What size floppy disk do you need? Much of the old DOS software came uncompressed on one or two floppies. Hard disks were luxuries back then. Quarterdeck's excellent Manifest is a standalone that came bundled with DESQview and QEMM. ASQ (freeware) was another goody. Older versions of Norton and PC Tools would do what you need. Quarterdeck is now owned by Inktomi or Symmantec (I believe), and Norton and PC Tools merged years ago. I am trying to recall ASQ's company; Helix comes to mind. Hope this helps.