What I’ve learned about Open Source community over 30 years

opensource.net ^ | 29 June 2024 | Jim Hall

[ShadowAce]

[mountainlion]

I deleted my MS Dos. Got any hints to reinstall it?

[butterdezillion]

My son has done a lot of fixes for GNU. Ultimately he’d like to find some sort of employment with people who value the open source movement. Are there such employment opportunities and if so, how would he go about finding them?

Thanks for any insights you might have.

[ShadowAce]

I deleted my MS Dos. Got any hints to reinstall it?

Here ya go :)

[butterdezillion]

That must be the inspiration for gunny sack races. lol

[ShadowAce]

Are there such employment opportunities and if so, how would he go about finding them?

Red Hat is hiring, I believe

[IYAS9YAS]

Lotus 1-2-3 Release 5. That’s what I learned on for spreadsheets. Excel of the day was a let-down. Then everyone went to office. Meh. Word-Perfect was also much easier to use and better than anything Microsoft put out for over a decade.

[fretzer]

>I deleted my MS Dos. Got any hints to reinstall it?

Archive.org has a few releases. There are also torrents available.

https://archive.org/details/MS_DOS_6.22_MICROSOFT

[butterdezillion]

Thanks. I’ll pass that long to him.

[Jim Robinson]

BTTT

[martin_fierro]

AH, for the days of an 8088 CPU, 512K RAM and a bootleg copy of LeadingEdge Word Processing

[Dr. Sivana]

Word-Perfect was also much easier to use and better than anything Microsoft put out for over a decade.

WordPerfect STILL has better kerning and typography, and Corel has done little with the code.

[alternatives?]

Lotus 1-2-3 was superior to Excel in almost every way, particularly print macros.

[wally_bert]

Good to know about WordPerfect.

I always loved it.

[wally_bert]

123 was fun to use what little I did with it.

Up until 5 or 6 years ago, 123 was still around at works via some emulation.

[MayflowerMadam]

I loved working in DOS in the ‘80s and ‘90s — WordPerfect, Lotus, Paradox, Sprint, etc.

It made sense.

[MayflowerMadam]

“Word-Perfect was also much easier to use and better than anything Microsoft put out for over a decade.”

Definitely. When WP went to Windows, it lost functionality.

[Dr. Sivana]

The original 1-2-3 was lightning fast because it was written in assembler, and stored the entire sheet in active RAM memory.

That reminds me of a story. The State of Connecticut had a bureau that stored a large, important database in 1-2-3. Unlike dBase, Paradox or aRev it kept the whole thijng in active memory, so as the IBM-AT 80286 ran out of RAM memory, more RAM was added, from 512K to 1,024K, to 4 meg, and finally to 16MB. When they hit the hardware wall at 16MB, they lost the whole database. True story!

[FreedomPoster]

“DOS isn’t done until Lotus won’t run.”