Subj : Re: Windows vs Linux
To   : Nightfox
From : Gamgee
Date : Mon Apr 25 2022 21:45:00

-=> Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-

 Ga> Yes, I remember those days with IE problems too. It was like a vicious
 Ga> circle - design your site to work with IE, or else! The backing behind
 Ga> the demand was that IE was the dominant browser and they didn't want the
 Ga> upstart new browsers to take any market share away. I don't think I've
 Ga> "trusted" Microsoft since the first version of Windows showed up. I did
 Ga> like MS-DOS in the days before that, though.

 Ni> I hadn't been using PCs much in those days.  My dad always had
 Ni> computers around, but I don't remember him getting an
 Ni> IBM-compatible PC until the mid-late 80s.  I think the first
 Ni> version of MS-DOS I remember using was probably 3.31, and 5.0
 Ni> later.  The first version of Windows I remember using was version
 Ni> 3.0 in 1990.  I thought it all was fairly cool, but I started to
 Ni> be frustrated with Windows when it seemed slow and sometimes
 Ni> unstable, where other similar (less popular) software was
 Ni> arguably better..  In the mid-90s, I was hoping OS/2 might start
 Ni> to catch on more, but Windows was already a sort of default by
 Ni> then.

I never had any of the early computers like the TRS-80, Commodores, etc.  
My first one was called the "Kaypro PC" which I bought new in 1986.  Had 
an 8088 CPU clocked at 4.77Mhz (which I later upgraded to an NEC V20 at 
8Mhz - significant upgrade), CGA graphics, an amber mono monitor 
(probably 13-14"), and DUAL 5.25" floppy drives (360Kb each).  No hard 
drive, although I added that later too.  I added a 1200 baud modem at 
some point and had a Compuserve account eventually.  Hard to imagine 
such hardware now, but at the time... it was GREAT.  Can't even 
describe the enjoyment I got out of that computer.  GW-BASIC 
programming, WordStar, SuperCalc.  I wish I had kept it but of course it 
is long gone.  I got more computers obviously and also went up through 
the Windows versions like everybody else did.  For some reason I was 
never interested in OS/2, and eventually started dabbling with Linux 
around 1996 or so.  Didn't start using Linux seriously until about 2001, 
and been with it ever since.  :-)

Ahhhhh, the memories.  Good stuff.



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