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>G.1. DOS</H1
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> To my surprise there are still many tools available to make an old 286 PC useful. I started a search for <B
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> and found many useful shareware programs. For instance:
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>Full-featured LAN for MSDOS computers, 286+req</A
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>RoseMail, PCBoard offline mail, 8086/286 exe's</A
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> There is even a free DOS around, see
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