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P3D Re: Back from the DDDead! - Part I


  • From: "Greg Wageman" <gjw@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: P3D Re: Back from the DDDead! - Part I
  • Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 18:57:06 -0800


>Fifteen years ago I was a "computer pioneer" with a 8088 Personal
Computer
>running DOS 2.0.  My problem is that I stayed too long with it.  My
next
>computer was a Pentium 120, 3 years ago.  I did not go through 80286,
386,
>486, Windows 2.0,  Just straight from 8088 DOS to Pendium/Win95.


Ha!  Call *that* pioneering?  I assembled my first personal computer in
1979.  It was an S100-bus based Z80 machine running at 4 (yes, four!)
MHz.  It had 56K (yes, K!) RAM and dual 8-inch floppy drives, for a
whopping 1.2 megabytes of storage on-line.  It ran the CP/M operating
system from Digital Research.  This was the sort of machine that the Y2K
bug was invented for; every byte was precious.

I still have it, and last I knew it still worked.  It makes a nice
table. :-)

That computer was followed by an Atari 1040ST (8MHz Motorola 68000,
4Megs RAM), and later an Atari TT (32MHz 68030, 12Megs RAM), on which I
now run Linux/m68K.

It wasn't until a little more than a year ago now that I broke down and
bought an Intel box (NT/Linux dual OSes, 300MHz P-II, 128Mbytes RAM, 8
Gigabytes disk, yadda, yadda...).

I have *never* run DOS.  My .sig for many years was, "I'd rather DIE
than DOS."  Of course for many years I made my living as a UNIX
programmer and sysadmin, so that's not really so strange.  ;-)

     -Greg W. (gjw@xxxxxxxxxx)






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