Subj : Re: UNIX on 486 boxes...
To   : Paulie420
From : Atreyu
Date : Sun Feb 25 2024 21:36:48

On 22 Feb 24  19:02:49, Paulie420 said the following to Davew:

P> One 'neat' thing about my collection is while a lot of it IS retro-computing
P> I also collect 'mantiques' - I intend to highlight some of that stuff on the
P> channel, too! Thanks for yer kind words!

Retro-computing........Pffffffffffffffffft.

I had a 486 tower from '93 till..... ohhhhhh probably 2000, 2001, with OS/2
Warp 3 as that was THE system of choice to run a multi-line Renegade board 
averaging around a hundred calls a day. It was the only system that could 
seriously keep up with callers slamming it at midnight to play the doorgames.

I was a huge fan of OS/2 and that 486 for close to a decade, while every one
of my friends at the time were into Windows 95, 98, all that. I dated a chick 
that emancipated herself from her parents and rented a Victorian townhome with
no furniture whatsoever except a dining room table, a Technics stereo system
and a 486 mooching these "MP3" files from weird IRC chatrooms... priorities.

I laughed it all off that it was all fads, the Internet was a fad, my 486 with
OS/2 will need to be pried away from my cold dead hands. And all the problems 
with OS/2 for a decade which could be a whole different subject altogether.

Exodus gets tired of the story but in the summer of 2001 I was shown Windows 
Server 2000 with its greatly matured Internet, VPN, tape backups etc that just
worked without screwing around with halfassed shareware/commercial crap on 
OS/2 and I just moved on...... literally ditched OS/2 overnight for Windows 
2000 and in the next year, XP which is what Darkrealms still runs on today.

I love my Tandy and 80's/90's but do not miss the days of the 486 and Pentium
motherboards with memory that OS/2 was flakely with and obviously Windows
95/98/NT was out of the question. So I had quirky video cards and problems
with hard drives, controllers, etc. Trying to get LAN and later USB working
was a nightmare. Eventually all that crap had to go for a designed-for-Windows
computer. Then as if by magic, all of the hardware problems stopped.

All of this now-cool retro nonsense was an absolute burdon in the 90's, very
annoying, "something" to mess around with, am glad those days are behind me.

Atreyu

--- Renegade vY2Ka2
 * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (25:25/5)

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