Subj : Re: UNIX on 486 boxes...
To   : Atreyu
From : paulie420
Date : Sun Feb 25 2024 20:18:57

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

Man - I wish ew got the same 100 callers now as then; I do tip 50, but man... yer talking dirty to me...

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

LOL - I was in IRC, too; but I wasn't mooching MP3s. >:P My bots were a bit more sinister... we didn't have the websites we do today, and all.

 At> I laughed it all off that it was all fads, the Internet was a fad, my
 At> 486 with OS/2 will need to be pried away from my cold dead hands.

Same... same.

 At> Exodus gets tired of the story but in the summer of 2001 I was shown
 At> Windows  Server 2000 with its greatly matured Internet, VPN, tape
 At> backups etc 

Dude - Windows 2000 was my choice around that time, too - Much better than 98 and didn't get in the weeds like NT did. I was a 2000 guy thru and thru.

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

Are they???



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