-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02.02.2012 08:54, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Wed, February 1, 2012 6:36 am, Dale wrote: >> J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, January 31, 2012 6:30 pm, Walter Dnes wrote: >>>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:05:12PM +0100, Michael Hampicke >>>> wrote >>>>>> Sweet. I had 15 minutes in the office "how long before >>>>>> someone makes a >>>>> pointless, unrelated Windows insult out of my post" pool; I >>>>> just won $5. >>>>> >>>>> I was using Win3.1 - and was happy with it I was using >>>>> Win95 - and was happy with it I was using WinNT4 - and was >>>>> happy with it I was using Win2000 - and was happy with it I >>>>> was using Win Server 2003 - and was happy with it I was >>>>> using Win7 - and was happy with it >>>>> >>>>> And I am also a Linux SuSe user since 6.0 and Gentoo user >>>>> since 1.something (but up until now just on the servers). >>>>> >>>>> I made the final switch from Windows to Linux on my >>>>> Workstation (Gentoo) and Notebook (Lubuntu) only a few >>>>> month ago. >>>>> >>>>> So please, don't accuse me of making Windows insults. >>>> >>>> I feel that Win98SE was the best Windows ever, and could've >>>> been even more of a killer if Microsoft hadn't so stupidly >>>> tried to ram ActiveX down people's throats. Remove ActiveX, >>>> and 99% of "drive-by-downloads" would've disappeared. WinME >>>> was a sad joke, however. >>> >>> I enjoyed MS Dos, then played a bit with MS Win3.11, MS Win95 >>> and MS Win98SE. However, for important stuff, like day-to-day >>> desktop, I switched to Linux in 1997. That was the last time I >>> lost files due to a crash of MS Windows... >>> >>> -- Joost >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> When 3.1 came out, I changed jobs. Swapping 15 floppies is no >> fun to me. Funny, reinstalling fixed the problems back then and >> it still is the best way to fix windoze. > > You should've tried installing MS Office back then... 45 (Or > there-abouts) floppies and the installer asking for them in a > random order. With some of those being asked several times... > > The guy asking for it paid a lot for it, so it wasn't too bad. ;) > > -- Joost > >
I remember OS/2 Warp 3.0 - 1 CDROM oder 95 floppies. I bought a cdrom-drive after the install failed the third time because of a bad disk (no. 70+, if i recall correctly) ;) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPKlS6AAoJEJwwOFaNFkYclKoH/AnQvPmsU4iAXALQ8OIYadGY VNiO1XVPcQDYHvVNBmaAbDlUWiFJh/qYNE7ocUaG7L6jecjM8hOUCdbCxGydt+zt lpMzA3piA9dWKf9GcAipud3tLSNNp3/6RnjMPa2rlpXR1u3DPwKm65ZYY/x7IJ03 LgEk922R0soUgR71AkYYTBYF3LT6Zz8eosopeZBtHmpX0j+P++Xia1Ao9jKEn3vL fn3uiwzMWhUGvQgufh/SA7Cc5GvEUV80f0jFN3RU33ECLTznC4AC/jEeahHR4Wvc tuqtuaFfna/TauCy09619GLFPyg7CmToPXWhmeaFlfFTq4ntUCzcqoJaVXJ8fcQ= =Y6ke -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----