On July 21, 2016 1:58:35 AM EDT, Zenaan Harkness <[email protected]> wrote: >On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 08:57:52PM -0400, John wrote: >> On July 20, 2016 7:19:35 PM EDT, Zenaan Harkness <[email protected]> >wrote: >> >On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 09:17:52AM -0700, Spencer wrote: >> >> >Microsoft would lose a large part of its market share in the >> >> >business and consumer markets >> >> >> >> I am confident that even after the collapse, businesses running 98 >> >and XP >> >> will still be paying for support q: >> > >> >I never understood why folks upgraded from WfWG3.1 - 98 was -never- >as >> >stable, except when nothing was installed (including drivers). Not >to >> >mention those ghastly green hills... > >Actually, it was WfWG 3.11, to be precise. I only had Windows 3.1, and >lusted after the full windows for worgroups edition... > >> I never understood why anyone would run Windows -at all-. Linux and >> *BSD have both been totally usable for 20+ years now... > >I did not know about Linux back then - I had actually heard about gcc >and tried to download it on an old loaner PC running DOS that I had at >the time, but I was getting only 1200baud! After 12 hours, reading >enough to realise I'd be doing a lot of swapping just to use it, I >figured I would wait until after upgrading to one of the new beaut >24/32kbps spangled modems and a better PC. > >A few years later someone I was working with brought in a slackware >full >CD set, and I was pleasantly amazed. Memory is not the best so there >are >probably other events in between.
The first time I ever tried to install Linux was on a 286 in I think 1995 (I lagged on quality computers as a kid). I downloaded the kernel source from a BBS at 9600 baud and got totally fucking confused with what to do with the resulting tgz file.... Eventually I was able to extract it in DOS, but of course it was still unusable... Linux needs 32bit and you can't install from a kernel source archive... Anyway I got a Pentium 120 a year or two later and figured it out. Never really looked back. Used a lot of Solaris in late 90s as well - netras were reasonably cheap (are dirt cheap now) John -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
