Subj : Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
To   : Gamgee
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed Nov 02 2022 09:39:42

  Re: Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
  By: Gamgee to Atreyu on Wed Nov 02 2022 07:34 am

 Ga> I have often wondered why I didn't find OS/2 
 Ga> attractive back then. Never really even tried it. I was immersed in 
 Ga> MSDOS and saw no reason or need to try anything else. I was even late 
 Ga> to the Win3 and Win95 parties, although I certainly did use them 

I always found alternative operating systems interesting, for the different ideas and features they offered.  When I was mainly using DOS, Windows was around, but I thought it was interesting that another major company (IBM) had offered something different.  I later heard that OS/2 didn't even have a GUI until a few versions in (1.3 or 2.0, I don't remember which).  And compared to Windows 9x, I think OS/2 offered much better multi-tasking and stability.  OS/2 was popular with BBS sysops because OS/2 allowed running multiple DOS programs easily, which was good for multi-node DOS BBSes.  (And I had found DESQView in DOS seemed to do that fairly well too..)

Also, when I was using MS-DOS, I thought it was interesting that there were alternative DOS operating systems, such as DR-DOS..

 Ga> eventually. Then 98 and even <gasp> WinME, finally XP. It was about 
 Ga> then (1998 or so) that I discovered Linux, and over the next 3-4 years 
 Ga> moved to it completely. :-)

I've heard people complain about Windows ME..  I used it briefly and didn't have a problem with it. <shrug>

I started hearing about Linux around 1995 or 1996 when my dad was playing with it at home, but I never really tried to seriously use Linux until around 1999 or 2000.  I bought a boxed copy of SuSE Linux at CompUSA around then and installed it on my PC in a dual-boot setup..

Nightfox
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