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To: Signalman

Still have MSDOS 3.3, loaded in an old Thinkpad.

Off topic, but also loaded Borland’s Turbo C++. Working.

Yes I’m a Dinosaur.


8 posted on 12/02/2023 10:49:01 AM PST by dagunk
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To: dagunk
"Still have MSDOS 3.3, loaded in an old Thinkpad"

I run DOSBox on both Windblows and Linux PCs so I can run a 30-year-old MSDOS-based recipe manager (because I'm not willing to key-punch the 4000+ recipes into a new recipe manager).

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Sure runs snappier than it did on the 80286 I originally ran it on.

16 posted on 12/02/2023 11:15:21 AM PST by Paal Gulli
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To: dagunk

I still have a Toshiba 1200xe (a 286) purchased in 1990, that still runs. It has WordStar for DOS and Stratego. I haven’t looked at it in years, but it ran the last time I checked.


38 posted on 12/02/2023 12:50:36 PM PST by Angelino97
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To: dagunk

MS-DOS 3.3 was the best Microsoft DOS as far as capability with the smallest memory usage.
Windows 2000 was the best Windows OS. MS got Digital Equipment Corp (DEC) software engineers to build it for them.


42 posted on 12/02/2023 1:26:12 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: dagunk

MD-DOS was probably the best of the early DOS O/S. I still remember it. And yes, I’m right there with you as a fellow dinosaur.


62 posted on 12/02/2023 3:12:20 PM PST by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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