Windows and MS-DOS

[Ol’ Ben]

I have gained more respect for the people who had to work on older computing systems today as I attempt to install MS-DOS, Windows 3.11 and windows 95 onto VMWare Player.

Seriously, how did anyone figure out how to use these systems before the internet was around? I assume an epic was written to explain the system and its functionality or something like that. People Nowadays have it too easy I think. But in a way that is good, it makes progress happen quicker and easier.

At first I was thinking to myself, What the hell is this, having to install MS-DOS before we can put windows on the machine? But when I actually thought about it, it makes sense.

I kinda wish I could have been at the stage I am at now back in the 1990s just to get to experience all this stuff as it was actually happening. I love it.

How have computers impacted you/any ridiculous memories from working with them?

[rob]

This is how Windows and Ms-dos affected me – I now use a Mac.

I think that the older I get, the shorter my patience is with computers doing funky things. That’s why I’m dying for the new iMac to be released so I can buy it with filthy money obtained from shattered dreams.

[Ol’ Ben]

I do like macs from time to time (I own an iMac) but I prefer Linux platforms over anything really. That might be because I know it the best, or that I code for it, but I just enjoy it more. Lots more to learn with windows because it breaks a lot more too haha

[Version3]

And you’ll increasingly find that what you have to learn on those older platforms is somewhat throw away for the newer ones. Yeah, I remember having to reboot, get into BIOS to reassign IRQs manually so that I could use the soundcard or the modem, because I had dedicated cards to each. Fuck I’m old.

First computer: 486 4/100 running Win95. But I’d been working on Win 3.11 and WinNT 3.51 for years at that point, was just too broke to own them.

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