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« Reply #45 on: June 27, 2005, 03:18:18 AM »
I still run DOS on an old 286 that's still in working condition after all these years.

It's nice and simplistic, but I find that pure command line Linux to be much more functional without sacrificing the minimal environment to work from.

Never had a mouse for the 286. Not like you need one in DOS anyway. I can't imagine trying to run WordPerfect 5.0 with a mouse anyway. Mice just get in the way of the OS ... right? ...

DOS is possibly the best vintage OS around, with the possible exception of whatever the heck it was that I used on that old Apple II/e, the one that didn't even have a hard drive...
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« Reply #46 on: June 29, 2005, 11:59:35 PM »
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God, I spent so much time making Basic programs for that.


I had a TI-83 issued for my maths classes this year. I am a geek, and there's nothing cooler then walking around and being still able to write applications!

And yes, there is linux for the TI range. Ported through ASM, I think.

My personal OS preference would have to be OS9, or Debian, or 98 for windows.

I just installed SOLARIS 10 on my first 120GB partition. I heard looking glass desktop is allready available! (though not on the sun website at last check)

Gee it would be coooool with a capital C to get that running!

I also run 10.2.8 on XP through pearpc. Runs quite fast for an emulated JITC.
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« Reply #47 on: June 30, 2005, 12:00:52 AM »
BTW: Project Looking Glass
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« Reply #48 on: July 13, 2005, 10:02:15 PM »
hehe... Linux.... I'm using Fedora Core 3.... I don't really value my time... but I enjoy the challege of figuring everything out..... with some help of course.... I do ask for help in forums and such.....
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« Reply #49 on: July 13, 2005, 11:20:27 PM »
pssst... don't use RPM distros, they just give you headaches and cause bleeding through your forehead from banging it on your keyboard/wall/whatever's-at-hand.
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« Reply #50 on: October 03, 2005, 04:18:24 PM »
I've heard alot about Project Looking Glass and am personally excited about it, but the thing that bothers me is that JavaScript is so easy to fuck with.  I really don't think this program can stand up to the Internet's capablities to fuck things up.  That's just my opinion though.
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« Reply #51 on: October 03, 2005, 07:00:28 PM »
I thought PLG was done in Java, not Javascript (big difference)
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« Reply #52 on: October 03, 2005, 09:02:15 PM »
It is.  (Note Sun also makes Java...)
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« Reply #53 on: October 03, 2005, 10:38:31 PM »
Yeah, I know, I was just thinking JS would be a horrible choice to do something like that in.
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« Reply #54 on: October 10, 2005, 08:06:13 PM »
OS 8 was pretty sweet.
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« Reply #55 on: October 11, 2005, 10:53:27 AM »
I'm using OS 9 at school lately. It's pretty simple, and honestly it disgusts me.
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« Reply #56 on: October 11, 2005, 02:15:16 PM »
I cant stand older versions of MacOS. OSX is the first one that I actually like.
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« Reply #57 on: October 12, 2005, 08:57:03 AM »
Quote from: Hellmark on October 11, 2005, 02:15:16 PM
I cant stand older versions of MacOS. OSX is the first one that I actually like.

I've got 9.2.2 on my old tray loader, at least until my ebay'ed 10.3 comes in. 9 wasn't terrible, it just looks... rough, I guess.
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« Reply #58 on: October 12, 2005, 09:03:24 AM »
no, 9 was horrible.  9 was the culmination of all the Macintosh OS's, never changeing, always adding.  All apple did was apply new technology to really, really old technology.  I don't think there was a Mac OS 9 machine i touched that didn't crash, hard.  i mean, sitting in class and saying, "Oh, fuck me" out loud hard.  OS 9 was BAAAAAAAD.
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« Reply #59 on: October 12, 2005, 09:08:01 AM »
Quote from: Knightslugger on October 12, 2005, 09:03:24 AM
no, 9 was horrible.  9 was the culmination of all the Macintosh OS's, never changeing, always adding.  All apple did was apply new technology to really, really old technology.  I don't think there was a Mac OS 9 machine i touched that didn't crash, hard.  i mean, sitting in class and saying, "Oh, fuck me" out loud hard.  OS 9 was BAAAAAAAD.

I guess it depends on the machine, too. I've had that old iMac for ages, and I can count the total number of crashes on one hand.
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