Subj : Re: MS-DOS and Win 3.11 Admin
To   : paulie420
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Fri Feb 02 2024 06:52:00

-=> paulie420 wrote to Ogg <=-

 pa> While I have no idea about this rail, many commercial MS-DOS/Win 3.11
 pa> applications run hardware that you can still purchase new today. What
 pa> is it, the PC-100 board - or something-100... you can still buy 486,
 pa> Pentium, etc. single board computers today that aren't old consumer
 pa> grade hardware.


 I see a lot of people on YouTube turning thin clients into Windows 3.11
 PCs for gaming. Seems like a platform designed for swapping out
 hardware would be perfect for running a legacy server. Take out the SD
 card, pop it into another $30 box and you're back.

 pa> At any rate, I'd look at one of these jobs if my knowledge sufficed and
 pa> it paid a decent salary; I'm happy that MS-DOS / Win 3.11 lives on
 pa> today so long as the infrastructure it runs isn't hampered by the
 pa> shortcomings of the OS'.

 I supported Windows 3.x for 4 years, first for a retailer, then later
 for a software company, and have fond memories of supporting it. It
 felt small enough to get your head around, and having .ini files
 instead of registries made it more supportable, IMO.

 Norton Desktop was a nice desktop environment, I really liked it. Rumor
 had it that IBM had ported Presentation Manager over to Windows, but I
 never saw it in action.









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