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Message from Steven
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itfactor36 wrote:
>
> A particular senior citizen lady I know well has been 
> using WordStar 4.0 for DOS since the late 1980's solely 
> for word-processing and printing.  Nothing else; a Luddite.  
> She refused to install WordPerfect for DOS and Windows, 
> MS-Word for Windows, Windows 95/98, Linux......  
> still will not use the perfectly-working 24X CD-ROM drive 
> that is installed nor will she go online for any means 

It's probably too late to change her.  I would give her
exactly what she wants and nothing more.
 
> I have a super low-grade near-identical replacement PC 
> for her.  
> This already has DOS 6.2 and WS4.0 already installed 

Good, your work is done.

> Question here is whether it would be better carrying out 
> the above on a larger 6GB+ hdd (i.e., faster, more reliable) 

For what she's doing, it's not worth the effort.

> and setting up a a) dual-boot DOS/BL3 system with WS4.O 
> on the DOS partition and BL3 running from the loop file 
> on "C:" 

I seriously doubt the Linux option would ever be used.

> -or- b) a wiping out DOS altogether and running WS4.0 
> from dosemu in a fully-installed BL3 ??

Definitely not.  You would be inviting endless problems.
Keep it simple:  she wants old DOS, she gets old DOS.

Cheers,
Steven