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Subject: Sanyo 555 & the $25 Network
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Date: 10 Jan 90 15:58:07 GMT
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Well, I've owned two sanyo 555's, one with the IBM video adapter card and 
one without.  A stock sanyo is 100% vanilla MS-DOS.  If the network program 
does ANY hardware calls, it will die.  With the IBM video adapter, you can 
get a little closer to IBM compatibility, but it never gets any better than 
about 30% compatible.  The advice that is continually given to Sanyo users 
is, 'try it. if it works, it works.'  That sounds kind of stupid, but the 
machine is so incompatible, that's really the only way to do things.

Back when that machine was on the market, Sanyo was keeping a list of 
programs that successfully ran on the 555.  You might try calling
them up.  (sorry, I don't have the phone number anymore.)


  Bruce Pope
  denwa!stb!gendep!baptpdc