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For me that paragraph immediately brought to mind, "And many of us who have grown weary of admonitions to 'watch this man or that' have... -
PPriscus replied to the thread Discussion Obsolete and Obsolescent: i286/386/486.You put me in mind of Hemingway, 'Torrents of Spring': "the warm Chinook wind" I do not recall what it did to the window - maybe...
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Your last paragraph almost sounds like the beginning of a novelette. If it had a been a rain streaked window it would've even been more...
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Thanks for writing! Well, I had used Debian for servers in the past and keep using it for synonymous activities up until this day. It...
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@Priscus Whatever happened to Cray supercomputers? I imagine they must be dead, just like DEC. I seem to remember IBM used to be...
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PPriscus replied to the thread Discussion Obsolete and Obsolescent: i286/386/486.Not on a 'front panel', but you could do this from the operator's console. The one which I had used was in a University department, so...
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PPriscus replied to the thread Discussion Obsolete and Obsolescent: i286/386/486.Hi. Oddly enough, most of my working life was in a hospital were only myself, apparently, had the need to be using a computer until...
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@Priscus The PDP-11 those were the glory days of DEC. I still remember DEC's clunky "word processing" program MASS-11. PCs put a quick...
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PPriscus replied to the thread Discussion Obsolete and Obsolescent: i286/386/486.Once again, thanks for your comments. I was particularly interested in comments relating to UNIX and Linux from times past. I was...
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Thanks for writing up! Well, Fedora used to be really good, but they kinda messed it up. Debian is always very stable and Ubuntu is...
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PPriscus replied to the thread Discussion Obsolete and Obsolescent: i286/386/486.I used to do that sort of thing back in the 8 bit (Z80/ 6502) days. At work I had been provided with a CBM 8096. It provided three...
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At my work we tasked an 80286 system to evaluating OS/2 Warp (the IBM OS), it was the first protected mode operating system for PCs and...
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PPriscus replied to the thread Discussion Obsolete and Obsolescent: i286/386/486.Cheers. Yes, I had omitted to mention, but I also ran Red Hat at the time, though it was out of curiosity rather than being put to...
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Tell me about it. I had a gaming system in 2001 (Intel Celeron Tualatin 1.3 GHz / GeForce2 MX 400 w. 64 MB memory / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB...
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PPriscus replied to the thread Discussion Obsolete and Obsolescent: i286/386/486.Thanks for your comments. I had only run DOS on this machine. Strangely enough, someone gave me a set of floppies containing W3.1 OS...
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