Subj : Re: Windows vs Linux
To   : Nightfox
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Tue Apr 26 2022 06:48:00

-=> Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-

 Ni> using was probably 3.31, and 5.0 later.  The first version of Windows I
 Ni> remember using was version 3.0 in 1990.  I thought it all was fairly
 Ni> cool, but I started to be frustrated with Windows when it seemed slow
 Ni> and sometimes unstable, where other similar (less popular) software was
 Ni> arguably better..

As a BBS guy, comms under Windows was bad for a long time, and that kept me 
in OS/2 and DOS. It wasn't until PCs got more horsepower that Windows became 
viable.

From 1997 until 2001 or so, I ran a DOS BBS in a window on my Windows95 
desktop, and it ran OK for a single node with not a lot of traffic. By then, 
I was on a Pentium 166 and later Pentium Pro 200 system with 32+ megabytes 
of RAM, pretty good for the time. It was still bad at serial comms, but fast 
enough hardware to compensate.




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