Subj : Re: UNIX on 486 boxes... To : Paulie420 From : Atreyu Date : Mon Feb 26 2024 07:56:24 On 25 Feb 24 20:18:57, Paulie420 said the following to Atreyu: P> Dude - Windows 2000 was my choice around that time, too - Much better than P> and didn't get in the weeds like NT did. I was a 2000 guy thru and thru. Same here. For the first time Windows "just worked". The Ntbackup and remote access capabilities sold it for me. On OS/2 these were and probably still are so halfassed. We know XP took it to the next level and its that which Darkrealms can only remain on, many doors and programs, overall reliability just is not the same on anything newer. Microsoft did "something" to NTVDM after XP. I cannot prove it but am convinced they did. I must be very careful writing this because we may have a resident know-it-all Professor here who loves to troll and pounce on anything XP because "You will be hacked tomorrow". Guess I better watch out! P> At> All of this now-cool retro nonsense was an absolute burdon in the 90's, P> At> very annoying, "something" to mess around with, am glad those days are P> At> behind me. P> P> Are they??? Let me put this another way. I don't miss the 486 and Pentium boards. The hardware I'm running now is professional grade stuff. I'm not going through 90's-era PSU, motherboard or stupid hard drive problems EVER again especially when mine is a major Fidohub many Sysops expect to have reliable service. I don't get nostalgic for Darkrealms because its not nostalgia. Its still in 2024 a daily part of my tech-life to RDP into that XP virtual machine, login to my board, see who called, read messages, trade silly banter. Log off, come back again later. I'm typing this now before I head off to work... in a 80x25 session, the same Renegade message editor, same batchfiles used for decades. Its not nostalgia if its still in daily use, just like cassettes for my car or the toaster in my kitchen purchased in '97. Atreyu --- Renegade vY2Ka2 * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (25:25/5) .