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Posted March 12, 2016
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Ganni1987: I like the command prompt particularly because it can do more than the GUI counterpart can. My DOS roots are part of the reason why I like Linux also.
Whereas I came from the completely opposite side. (Macintosh) System 7, and later Mac OS 8.

No command line to be seen anywhere in the system unless you found a third-party application yourself, and even then it was extremely simple and just built as if to say "it's possible to have a command-line on the Macintosh" (really just traversing the file system, managing files, and maybe launching applications - no scripting whatsoever if I remember correctly, and obviously no editing settings files because the files where any settings were stored weren't ever plain text).

I mean, I still quite enjoy using the "classic" Mac OS, but I mainly run Arch Linux.
Post edited March 12, 2016 by Maighstir
Posted March 12, 2016
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Maighstir: Whereas I came from the completely opposite side. (Macintosh) System 7, and later Mac OS 8.

No command line to be seen anywhere in the system unless you found a third-party application yourself, and even then it was extremely simple and just built as if to say "it's possible to have a command-line on the Macintosh" (really just traversing the file system, managing files, and maybe launching applications - no scripting whatsoever if I remember correctly, and obviously no editing settings files because the files where any settings were stored weren't ever plain text).

I mean, I still quite enjoy using the "classic" Mac OS, but I mainly run Arch Linux.
I installed OS 9 in SheepShaver recently, just to revisit HyperCard. Well, and a few other old games. I think it was while I was installing Diablo, I hear a synthesized voice say; "It's not my fault. Installing Microsoft Library." Oh, Apple.
Posted March 12, 2016
-No internet integration as mandatory OS part

But definitively, best reason is that file search worked.
Posted March 12, 2016
The days before windows were dark days for PC gaming. I remember a large failure rate at getting games to even install. Running them could be a major pain in the ass too. Ultima VII was one of those games that you had to have a separate super clean autoexec and config files to load memory extenders, and nothing else. Windows with Directx revolutionized pc gaming as far as I am concerned.
Posted March 13, 2016
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Darvond: This Windows 10 F/U/D is getting tiring.

It's far more stable than Windows Vista ever was and has far less issues than I've seen in an OS.
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hedwards: Windows Vista was perfectly stable after they got that first service pack released and the drivers were finally stable. Vista mostly suffered because it used a new driver model and a lot of the hardware manufacturers didn't have stable drivers, which meant more crashes than usual.

I've run Vista and it rarely crashed for me. My mother had a lot of crashes, but that was primarily because the drivers weren't very well written.
True. I am using Vista on my main laptop since 2007 and I am perfectly fine with it. There are tons of programs that I am daily using that doesnt work on windows 7 or linux and I didnt even re-install it since day one.
Posted March 13, 2016
What's a Windows 10?
Posted March 13, 2016
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hedwards: Windows Vista was perfectly stable after they got that first service pack released and the drivers were finally stable. Vista mostly suffered because it used a new driver model and a lot of the hardware manufacturers didn't have stable drivers, which meant more crashes than usual.

I've run Vista and it rarely crashed for me. My mother had a lot of crashes, but that was primarily because the drivers weren't very well written.
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Engerek01: True. I am using Vista on my main laptop since 2007 and I am perfectly fine with it. There are tons of programs that I am daily using that doesnt work on windows 7 or linux and I didnt even re-install it since day one.
Bagsy the gold ticket, we have found BOTH Windows Vista users who didn't have problems!


On a totally different note, I had the Automatic Repair Loop of doom problem on my Win8.1 install. That is where it tells you it needs to repair something or other, and to restart, loop over and over. I think I fixed it for now, had to force driver signing override as the given solutions on the web didn't work. But its a good reminder to me to get a new Win7 install and bugger this 8 version into the same depth of hell that Vista has gone to.
Posted March 14, 2016
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MaximumBunny: But can it run Crysis?
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rtcvb32: You know, they used to ask if the computers could run DOOM... DOOM was a heavy duty game/program and did lots of graphics processing at the time, and was one of the biggest shareware games. More than once on a computer with minimum specs, I had to shrink the screen size less than half the screen before the framerate was good enough to play decently.
I find it funny because I asked the same thing to the boss of the software development company we were taking a tour some years ago when he showed us the main server, and I didn't know that question was that usual back then.

My first OS was MS-DOS 3.2. I also had DOS Plus but I didn't use it much. Also, anyone of you remember GEM Desktop?
Post edited March 14, 2016 by Ikarugamesh
Posted March 14, 2016
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Klumpen0815: What's a Windows 10?
A set of handcuffs pretending to be an accessory.

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Ikarugamesh: Also, anyone of you remember GEM Desktop?
Gem... only briefly while using emulation, but i do remember seeing it at least once.
Posted March 17, 2016
Because it didn't have administrator profile/guest profile/public profile, rights of usage, forced accessibility cr@p on your system, hidden folders and ridiculously overpriced games!
Posted March 17, 2016
Here's a reason Dos is better than windows... Built in Ramdrive support.
Posted March 17, 2016
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Klumpen0815: What's a Windows 10?
A miserable pile of secrets!
Posted March 17, 2016
I see
Posted March 17, 2016
Nonsense. Everyone knows that [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(8-bit_operating_system)]GEOS[/url] is the best operating system ever made!
Post edited March 17, 2016 by marsrunner
Posted March 17, 2016
Will DOSBox ever have hardware acceleration? That would be awesome.
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