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To Ubuntu or not to Ubuntu; that is the question.
AdeV:
--- Quote from: Arbalist on April 19, 2014, 04:31:02 AM ---Yes, almost everything except Windows! Why is this?! :doh:
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Mostly because Unix is a damn site older than Windows! It's known to have existed in 1969; Microsoft didn't get into the server market (not seriously, at least) until the early 1990s with Windows NT...
lordedmond:
And it's better , more robust, it may not have all the frills but it works and keeps on doing that
What about COBOL , FORTH and even CPM
Or for the big boys IPL and it's variants
For what it's worth I do not use win doze I have been a MAC user for many years and I do not regret the move form Dos 3.1 or Win 3
Stuart
DavidA:
Bring back CP/M that what I say ...
I still have CP/M on my Amstrad 8256. And it still works.
For my 'playing about' stuff I use a 486 machine running DOS 6.2 and GWbasic to create my programs.
That leaves me Assembler for anything that needs to run very quickly.
I like DOS. Lots of programs from way back run on it.
Can you get on to the web from DOS ? (broadband, that is) I understand you can use 56K if you want to tie up the family land line for hours.
Dave.
CrazyModder:
I fondly remember the time when I tried out all the programs on my 5 1/4" DOS boot disk. I managed to junk the floppy by running some command (renum, recover or something like that) which turned all files names into neatly numbered new ones. Needless to say, it was a long trip to get a new boot disk.
And yes, I had an elite 8086 machine with not only one 5 1/4" drive, but TWO of them!
DavidA:
Two 5.25" on my TRS-80 Model 4 . Two 8" drives on the TRS-80 Model 16 and two 8" drives on the NEC/APC.
And yes, before anyone asks, I do have a large collection of old computers.
My wife hates me, wonder why.
Dave. :Doh:
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