On Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 10:14 PM Jim Brain via cctalk
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> I remember using 3.1, 4.0, and 2000. As I recall, I loved the stability
> of 3.1, but the UI was old and outdated, especially when 95 came out.
> 4.0 offered the nicer UI, but the driver situation was still a problem,
I forget at w
Oh lord was it gammafax?
Sent from my iPhone
> On Jul 30, 2024, at 12:12 PM, The Doctor via cctalk
> wrote:
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>> On Monday, July 29th, 2024 at 18:22, David Wise via cctalk
>> wrote:
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>> I will never forget Windows ME. Bleargh!
>
> I had to admin a fax server running on an ME box for a
On 7/30/2024 6:58 AM, cz via cctalk wrote:
But Windows 2000 was a re-architected version of NT that people hated
because of the GUI. So they dusted up the GUI with Windows 98's stuff
and released it as XP. Rest was history
In the interest of facts, I don't think this is correct.
Windows N
> Tuxera Systems acquired Datalight in 2019 and now sells ROM-DOS. They
> claim it's still fully compatible with MS-DOS.
>
> Single User ROM-DOS costs $55 USD, and the SDK for building it embedded
> is "Call for a Quote".
$55 isn't that bad. If it was a real commercial product with printed manua
> FreeDOS is cheaper :-)
> Long Live FreeDOS!
>
> https://freedos.org/
Unfortunately FreeDOS (as expected given the nature of the project)
progresses very slowly. I would love to see FreeDOS become a full fledged
MS-DOS 7.0, would have/could have/should have been, replacement. I still run
DOS 6.22
On 2024-07-30 22:20, Doc Shipley via cctalk wrote:
And I learned last week that DOS is still alive, and well, and damned
expensive.
[...]
Long Live DOS!
FreeDOS is cheaper :-)
Long Live FreeDOS!
https://freedos.org/
On 2024-07-30 2:55 p.m., CAREY SCHUG via cctalk wrote:
I don't think anaybody has reposted this one on this thread.
Microsoft release Windows CE, which bombed
Then Windows ME, another bomb
Finally Window NT, a moderate success
So they combined them but still can't get windows CEMENT to comple
I don't think anaybody has reposted this one on this thread.
Microsoft release Windows CE, which bombed
Then Windows ME, another bomb
Finally Window NT, a moderate success
So they combined them but still can't get windows CEMENT to complete the boot
process.
...or something like that.
--Car
On 7/29/24 19:21, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
On Mon, 29 Jul 2024, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
I had not realized that 43 yrs. ago Microsoft purchased 86-DOS for
$50,000
– US not Cdn. money. With this purchase the PC industry, IBM’s version
thereof, began. I remember using it to do ama
If this is DOSfox's clone, he also built a Lisa clone last year. Of
course, the point, like a lot of stuff in this hobby, is "because why not?"
On 28/07/2024 02:41, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
I came across this today: “Electronics engineer builds 1986 Macintosh Plus
clone”. Is there s
On Monday, July 29th, 2024 at 18:22, David Wise via cctalk
wrote:
> I will never forget Windows ME. Bleargh!
I had to admin a fax server running on an ME box for a couple of years. I
sincerely hope
I never have to do that again..
The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510]
WWW: https://drwho.virt
On Monday, July 29th, 2024 at 12:25, Liam Proven via cctalk
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> > I came across this today: “Electronics engineer builds 1986 Macintosh Plus
> > clone”. Is there some reason one would want to do this? Not sure what the
> > point is but it proves it can be done!
>
> It can be done on a Ra
On Tue, 30 Jul 2024 at 09:42, Dave Wade G4UGM via cctalk
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> Yes it started life as NT5 but at some point in got renamed to 2000 and DEC
> Alpha support was dropped. I may have some NT5 Beta CDs in the loft.
I think *all* the non-Intel versions were dropped, weren't they?
There was an unre
On Tue, 30 Jul 2024 at 01:28, Fred Cisin via cctalk
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> Gordon Letwin at Microsoft developed OS/2. But Microsoft sold it off to
> IBM, and it became known as an IBM product.
That is not quite how I remember it...
> Microsoft used some key technology from it in developing WindowsNT.
> With
Pretty much, though Windows2000 was a significant redesign over NT4.
I was one of the first users of NT4 at the IEEE Computer Society in the
early 90's. We ran it on TALOS, the 8 CPU NCR 3550 system and it was one
of the first truly SMP systems out there (with dual Microchannel busses
as well)
> -Original Message-
> From: David Wise via cctalk
> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2024 2:01 AM
> To: Murray McCullough via cctalk
> Cc: David Wise
> Subject: [cctalk] Re: MS-DOS
>
> I think Windows 2000 is NT-based.
>
Yes it started life as NT5 but at some point in got renamed to 2000 and
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