On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 14:53, Noel Chiappa via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was speaking from a user's perspective; I never did much coding under > Windows (well, a fair amount under Cygwin, using only the portable I/O > library, but that's not really _Windows_ programming).
Well, me too. I don't really program anything any more and haven't since the end of the 1980s. > From that perspective, 98SE was the sweet spot for me (I don't have any > reliability issues, with the configs I run). I do have some XP machines, > and the Windows 10 laptop, but most of mine run 98SE. I am astonished. I never found 98SE a stable or reliable OS and was glad to get rid of it. I keep DOS boot partitions around on some of my machines. E.g. my testbed Thinkpad X200 has a bootable primary IBM PC DOS 7.1 (not 7.01) primary partition. (The others contain A2, Haiku and Devuan.) But the recent kit mostly has Win10 around, just in case I need to reflash a BIOS or root a phone or something. I never normally use it -- they run Ubuntu normally -- but it's there if I need it. (After an hour of installing updates, anyway.) -- Liam Proven - Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: [email protected] - Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: [email protected] Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven - Skype/LinkedIn: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 - ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053
