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The only reason I ever used NT was because it acknowledged multi-processors...nix still rules IMO...!
Time Flies -- Windows Turns 30
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The only reason I ever used NT was because it acknowledged multi-processors...nix still rules IMO...!
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Windows is an inelegant pig. The only reason it works these days is because processor speeds have come to the point where they can power through the mush faster than you can notice what a dog it really is. The developer should be ashamed of releasing such a brick. It is a third world operating system supported by first rate marketing.
I really enjoyed working with UNIX systems on SUN Sparc boxes and DEC Alphas a long time ago. Man, 30 years.... where'd they go? :confused3:
I really enjoyed working with UNIX systems on SUN Sparc boxes and DEC Alphas a long time ago. Man, 30 years.... where'd they go? :confused3:
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I notice that Windows 10 has included "Command Prompt" in the start menu. Ping was/still is always useful. There must be a few 'oldies' still around. 
Always reckoned that X-Tree Gold was the best in finding out what was going on.
Always reckoned that X-Tree Gold was the best in finding out what was going on.When I started on PCs there was no such thing as a hard drive or a floppy drive. We had to boot from a cassette tape recorder!
My first dial-up was 300 baud.
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And of course there is all the stuff that preceded the first PC. Loading programs with paper tape through a 110 baud teletype was real fun!
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Yeah, we had a typesetter that had a paper punch tape to load the program. That was in 1987.
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Sounds like my first computer; a Radio Shack "Color Computer" hooked to a 13" RCA color TV I had for a monitor. My Color Computer was 32K; they had just upgraded from the original 16k machines. A cassette tape recorder was used to save any of your work, and the printer used a 4" wide roll of paper and actually had 4 tiny ball point pens that printed on that paper roll.
My first was a Commodore 64 with the cassette drive, hooked to a 13" B&W television (later on I got the external floppy drive). It usually took several hours to type code and trouble shoot for a simple game that took just a few minutes to play.
Still have everything except the TV up in the attic today, stored in the original boxes. I doubt it, but I kept them thinking that someday they may be worth something.
Still have everything except the TV up in the attic today, stored in the original boxes. I doubt it, but I kept them thinking that someday they may be worth something.