Ant wrote:
Bill in Co surly_curmudgeon@earthlink wrote:
Ant wrote:
Bill in Co surly_curmudgeon@earthlink wrote:
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Windows XP (and Windows 98SE and Windows 2000) were simply lean and
mean, with nothing ever getting in your way. If you wanted to do
something at the file level, nothing was stopping you. That said, I
wouldn't want to go back to Windows 3.1. :-)

What about DOS? :-P 3.x and 9x were annoying, and easy to crash. NT4 and
up were much better. Even Vista was OK! 10 was OK if it wasn't so dang
annoying.

Yup, I still have a special place in my heart for DOS. So yeah, I miss
DOS a bit. And Windows 98SE was the last version that had a true DOS
fallback built in. Some days I just like looking at that simple black
text screen. It can be refreshing. Especially in this "climate", but
I'll just leave it at that. :-)

You can use Linux. It still has black text screen. In fact, I SSH to
Linux boxes to use text modem command lines and programs (e.g., tin for
usenet!) all the time. I'm old school.

I tried Linux (Cinnamon Mint, etc), but found it's just not worth all the
hassle, at least to me. Plus I've got way too much invested (program wise)
in Windows at this point.