I dont understand why so many people keep nagging Cliff his choice of making something useful with his old laptop. I find it to be a very sane question. Many people have old hardware useless to current OS. But are they really useless? No.
I think the best way to go is to install a vnc-client on the machine. You can find one for DOS.
Vnc is a PC-anywhere-style system that you can use to connect to other computers.
Vnc-servers exist for both Xwindows and Windows GUI.
I that way you can use the old laptop as a graphial terminal and connect to either a Linux or a Windows-computer.
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I dont understand why so many people keep nagging Cliff his choice of making something useful with his old laptop. I find it to be a very sane question. Many people have old hardware useless to current OS. But are they really useless? No. I think the best way to go is to install a vnc-client on the machine. You can find one for DOS. Vnc is a PC-anywhere-style system that you can use to connect to other computers. Vnc-servers exist for both Xwindows and Windows GUI. I that way you can use the old laptop as a graphial terminal and connect to either a Linux or a Windows-computer.