On July 21, 2016 1:58:35 AM EDT, Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 08:57:52PM -0400, John wrote:
On July 20, 2016 7:19:35 PM EDT, Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> 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.