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Re: Windows 9 Too Good to Release
« Reply #25 on: October 23, 2014, 07:24:28 AM »
Quote from: fistful on October 03, 2014, 12:54:15 AM
He was playing out the dialogue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOO5S4vxi0o#t=0m38s

Who's not a Spinal Tap fan, now?  :P

It's a movie right? Never watched it.
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Re: Windows 9 Too Good to Release
« Reply #26 on: October 23, 2014, 11:28:54 AM »
Quote from: lee n. field on October 22, 2014, 08:35:07 AM
Which means the questions is "Ah, but what god?*"

*Borrowed from a Douglas Adams book.

Why the God with dominion all things related to PCs and assorted electronics.  That Nordic chap, Loki.   >:D

I've never liked MS Windows, and my exposure to the version 8 / Server 2012 family has only solidified my opinion.
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Re: Windows 9 Too Good to Release
« Reply #27 on: October 23, 2014, 04:33:23 PM »
Quote from: Sindawe on October 23, 2014, 11:28:54 AM
Why the God with dominion all things related to PCs and assorted electronics.  That Nordic chap, Loki.   >:D

Eris.

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Re: Windows 9 Too Good to Release
« Reply #28 on: October 23, 2014, 06:16:54 PM »
Quote from: lee n. field on October 05, 2014, 01:51:35 PM
I got to where I could do DOS 5 memory management pretty well manually.

There was also Quarterdeck's QEMM, if you wanted to go that route.  (And DesqView, full preemptive multitasking of DOS apps, with good serial port support.)

I never had a problem with DOS 6.0, like many people did.  As karmic payback, my initial foray into Win95 was a horrific disaster.

Something I wrote about that at the time:


Yeah, my experience with installing 95 wasn't a picnic either.
I had legacy hardware (A Soundblaster, a MPU401 based wavetable card (think small soundcard with a synth on it with a MPU-401 port on the back & a single line out jack, and a floppy drive.)  Guess what Windows decided had to "share" the same IRQ (which none of them were even jumpered for?)

That, and getting some of the old DOS stuff I had at the time to run right was a trial. 

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Re: Windows 9 Too Good to Release
« Reply #29 on: October 23, 2014, 06:44:38 PM »
Quote from: RoadKingLarry on October 23, 2014, 07:24:28 AM
It's a movie right? Never watched it.


Cool story, bro.
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