On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 21:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Gee, you make me feel OLD. I started with a VIC-20 then a C-64. > My first WORK related PC was running I forget, the second one was > a 64K dual floppy green screen. When we got up to 640K I had > spreadsheets (lotus) that took multiple floppies to save. This > was at WORK. I remember when my boss got a 286 with a 10meg hard > drive. We thought we'd never fill it.
Revist the past by installing and using dosemu (www.dosemu.org) and freedos (www.freedos.org). Then you can run your old dos programs and have the nice comfortable warm feeling. Another seriously cool project (that probably would have changed the world back in the day) is http://sealsystem.sourceforge.net/, a nice multi-threaded, preemptive gui/os on top of DOS (286 and higher). Kind of similar to Geos (see www.breadbox.com for the latest Breadbox Ensemble, which is the latest incarnation of Geoworks Ensemble, which is geos). Anyway, the world of DOS is alive and well. I'm playing my old games. It's fun! DOSEMU on linux is cool, too. Michael > > That must of been around the time you were 5. > > Brad - class of '76 > > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Soren Harward wrote: > > > Linux once we were already pretty familiar with computers. I started > > off with Apple IIe's and a 286 running DOS (yeah, I remember thinking > > MS-DOS 5.0 was a big step up). I didn't get into Linux until high > > school, after I'd already been using computers for about eight years. > > > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
