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To: This_far

I as well. I resisted for the longest time migrating to the ‘doze environment since it was so bloated and sluggish. It seems that there are still some issues that need to be worked out to this day.


9 posted on 06/15/2016 6:47:45 PM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzrims trying to kill them)
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To: Utilizer

(as long as we can reminisce) A group of like minded, but with varied skills would gather on Saturdays.

We never thought ‘computers’ would go anywhere and constantly disparaged that new Microsoft (stole Dos) thing.

Could have bought at $18 share. (yeah, then all the way up to around $75 when we said ... oops).


10 posted on 06/15/2016 6:56:23 PM PDT by This_far
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>> I miss DOS

> I as well. I resisted for the longest time migrating to the ‘doze environment since it was so bloated and sluggish.

No reason you can't have the best of both worlds at once. Just make an MS-DOS VM (using the DOS that came with Win98), like this:

 

And no, that's not photoshopped. It's a screensnap from my Mac running VMware Fusion a few minutes ago, with a DOS window over a Win10 window.

25 posted on 06/15/2016 8:27:43 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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