Hello Mike!

22 Jan 18 17:56, you wrote to me:

 MP> That looks similar to my list of OSes I am familiar with, and I don't
 MP> do Windows, either. Well, except on an old laptop that does not
 MP> connect to anything else just to play my old SimCity games.  :)

I had a cold turkey purge of anything windows. I had enough of its stupid
nonsense and instability and crappy drivers. Thats been decades ago, and I
don't regret it.

Never played games on PC. I had my Atari VCS2600, and now I have one of those
reto VSC2600 things which has like 130+ games in it including the Activision
ones, Pitfall Harry! Yeah the graphics suck for most of the arcade ports, but
Centipede, and Space Invaders is pretty good to the arcade, so I am happy. That
 is where my interest in games ends. I've got an "official" PacMan on the
tablet.

I migth if the list ever shrinks down to it put a PiMAME box together to do
real arcde versions of Centipede, PacMan, SI, Zaxxon.

I have not touched winslobber to use in decades. I don't support it at work or
peronsally. I take in machines decontaminate them, and repurpose them with
Linux of some sort on them. I make it a point to avoid that arena at all costs.

 >> I prefer native 100% Linux, only. Thanks.

 MP> Well, I do run dosemu and old dos stuff on my nix box.  :)

DOS is/was not my issue. I don't really have an issue with it other than not
ever really getting what we needed, DOS/386 so that all the shenaningans of
DESQView, DESQview/X, EMS, XMS, etc. could have been avoided.  A true DOSNIX of
 a sort, where upon X would have been the GUI. The path that went forward with
the stolen, and YES STOLEN! XPARC GUI systems from the STAR etc. that lead to
crapple crapintosh and winslobber.

I might try dosbox to try to get it to run FD, FOSSIL, etc. just more for
giggles than anything. DOS like I said was not my issue, its what came after
that. The fact that I can run 3 GUI terminals off my little measly dual core
with RasPi's as basically X terminals and then the 4 core runs several VM
loads. *NIX based stuff just has more functionality to start.


winslobber setback computing by decades, and continues to rot the brains of its
 users and those who use it as more than anything other than a glorified
typewriter with a screen.


Rick


... NOprah!
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