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Except you only have to boot up Win2K once every six months.

I can't say that about XP, even if it is prettier.
 
Win2K was more so, at least until mainstream support was discontinued. Apps on XP crash with more frequency. Still, both are much better than the horror known as 9x.
 
Back in the last century when I was still using dialup, I found that using my Linux machine to act as a gateway/NAT box (with the dialup modem attached to the Linux machine, of course) made browsing on WFW 3.11 and an Ethernet card noticably faster than using WFW 3.11 with either Trumpet Winsock or ShivaPPP dialer and a directly-attached modem.

ShivaPPP, by the way, was a little better/faster/more stable than Trumpet Winsock, and Erol's was distributing ShivaPPP with their installation disks..I switched many people who were using Trumpet Winsock to ShivaPPP instead, even if they weren't using Erol's.

WFW 3.11 has a built-in TCP/IP stack for Ethernet cards, but not for PPP...you still had to use a 3rd-party dialer.
 
I had an ibm ps/2 14" or 13" integrated monitor.
It had 640 by 400! resolution thats right not even vga.

JPEGS in the
386 SX 20mhz 2meg ram.
 
Anyone remember TweekDUN?

I could live with 3.1. It just required a little skill to integrate hardware changes. I liked OS/2 as well once it evolved up to V2. That and DEC Alphas (a whole different breed) were nice alternatives to the Wintel world if you didn't want to Mac.

I have few good memories of 9x. Like trying to keep thirty blind gerbils in a shoebox from running into each other. At least it wasn't as bad as the early Tandys that booted off cassette tapes.

I'm not looking forward to Vista.
 
TweakDUN! Haven't heard that in years!

My first PC that I purchased with my own $$ was an all-in-one IBM PS/1, 286/10 (12?) with 2.5MB RAM, MS-DOS 4 (ick!), 30MB HD a 14.4kbps modem and grayscale VGA for $525. I ran MS-Works 3.0 for DOS on there along with GEO Works.

Oh yeah, and for a short period of time, Prodigy. Anyone remember that service?

Which begs the question, do two PS/1's equal one PS/2 ??
 
I remember working on the innards of 8088s running Nortons Utilities that Peter Norton actually had a hand in writing.

My how times have changed.
 
I think I had tweakDUN! I went to a college that gave away laptops and we got these 486/25 clunkers (special bargain slow notebook CPU, slower than you think) with 4 megs of ram. School wanted to network everyone suddenly (typical liberal arts attention deficit disorder) without forcing a ram upgrade. WFW 3.11 was the incredibly slow answer! Microsoft promised it'd run on 4 megs... oh the horrors.

Even practically all of the linux distros need 8 megs to fly... looked into that to give that old laptop a new functionality...
 
Four meg! You can't run ANY Win 3x variant on that unless you have days to burn. Open any decent sized app and you were cooked. Eight meg was the practical minimum for any business environment back then.

Hard to believe that four meg is not even an adequate HD buffer anymore. In another ten years, I'll be able to carry my entire present video, DVD, and CD collection, uncompressed, in my shirt pocket. Amazing.
 
I ran 4 megs on a 486 SX/33 on 3.1. It was fine. When I upgraded to the Mighty 486DX2/66, I bought a $400 8 meg simm to run Pagemaker.
 
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