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View Poll Results: Which OS do you use?
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Windows XP, 98, 2000
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Mac OS X
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September 4th, 2007, 02:38 AM
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I'm kinda curious, what do most people who read this forum us as their primary computer OS? I run linux. Any mac users or are most people MS windows users?
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September 4th, 2007, 02:17 PM
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An where is the box for Windows 3.1? I don't use it for internet acces anymore, but it's the only computer that runs my DOS Turbo Pascal compiler!
-Sonny-
P.S. - It's kinda funny  , but also sadly true. 
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September 4th, 2007, 02:41 PM
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Late adopters unite!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sonny
where is the box for Windows 3.1?
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In March of this year I finally broke down and bought a new computer. Until then I was still running Windows 98 on a computer I was thinking of as an antique. But you've got me beat by a mile! 
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September 4th, 2007, 03:39 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Canceler
Until then I was still running Windows 98 on a computer I was thinking of as an antique. But you've got me beat by a mile! |
Yeah, working on a 486 66MHz forces you to learn good programming skills. Otherwise my BJ simulator would run in realtime! 
-Sonny-
P.S. - Oh, and every program has to fit on a 1.44 MB floppy disk...
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September 4th, 2007, 08:57 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sonny
An where is the box for Windows 3.1? I don't use it for internet acces anymore, but it's the only computer that runs my DOS Turbo Pascal compiler!
-Sonny-
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Have you ever tried DOSBox? I have one DOS program I use from time to time and DOSBox let's it run on an XP machine.
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September 5th, 2007, 12:29 AM
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Went from 3.1, 95, 98, 2000 to Redhat, Debian, Gentoo Suse, a hand full of other Linux flavors.. then tried XP for a day back to Ubuntu Now, OS X. My MacBook is the best computer I have ever owned hands down.
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September 5th, 2007, 12:48 AM
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It's amazing how technology has changed. My first computer booted off 5 1/2inch floppy drives, no hard drive at all. My new laptop doesn't even have a floppy drive. Makes me feel kinda sad in a way, I spent way too many hours working on the fat12 lab in OS class.
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September 5th, 2007, 12:51 AM
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I'm running ubuntu now. I started with mandrake, went to gentoo. I might change it up but I've got most things working, so why bother. My big concern would be if I couldn't get my wireless card working in a different distro.
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September 5th, 2007, 01:05 AM
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That and any type of GUI are the biggest pain in the butt with a linux distro. Ubuntu and Debian support many wireless cards. Well Ubuntu is based of the Deb Kernel.. I think the Folks at Apple really have it nailed. I still have a shell if I want to do it like that but I'm very lazy now and this MB makes life in the tech field much easier. Running Parallels ( With XP ) coupled with a Unix based shell within OS X makes them flawless for any Remote Administration I may need to do.
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September 15th, 2007, 11:02 PM
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This thing is a dinosaur compared to today's standard. It's got to be 10 years old.
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