12-28-13 08:18 Kurt Weiske wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Apache OO, LO etc.

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 KW> This was 1991, and the old boxes I managed ran MS-DOS 3.2, I
 KW> believe.

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 KW> To clarify, my experience wiH EDLIN was with work computers
 KW> where I needed to edit files on someone else's system to update
 KW> them. My first home computer was an XT clone in 1986. I forget
 KW> what DOS that was running, but it was whatever version was the
 KW> first to support hard disks.

Kurt,

According to Flambeaux Software, Inc. DOS HELP 5.0

  DOS 2.00 was the first to support a 10 MB HDD.

I was still using a Commodore 64 PC at home in 1986.

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 KW> My first mind-blowing PC experience was seeing CAD rendering on
 KW> a Compaq 286 with an 80287 math co-processor. I tried the same
 KW> on my XT and it took a minute and a half. 10 seconds on the
 KW> 286/287 combo.

I was amazed at how The Online Bible v2.11 for DOS was so fast to
show all the Scripture Verses that had a word I asked it to find
in the Bible,

Made my jaw drop when I saw the results FLASH UP INSTANTLY on the
monitor connected to my 486DX33 box with 8 MB RAM and MS-DOS 5.0
on a 330 MB HDD.

... Possible WIN.COM virus on the C drive, WINDOWS directory.
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