Comments on: Buy a New OS http://kristian.tapaninaho.com/2007/08/buy-a-new-os/ Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:31:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Kristian Tapaninaho http://kristian.tapaninaho.com/2007/08/buy-a-new-os/#comment-51 Kristian Tapaninaho Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:07:54 +0000 http://tapaninaho.com/blog/2007/08/buy-a-new-os/#comment-51 At some point between then and now I must have forgotten that it all used to happen on the command line. I remember Doom being one of the first games back then not being able to fit on a set of floppies without compressing some of the files. At some point between then and now I must have forgotten that it all used to happen on the command line.

I remember Doom being one of the first games back then not being able to fit on a set of floppies without compressing some of the files.

]]> By: alex http://kristian.tapaninaho.com/2007/08/buy-a-new-os/#comment-50 alex Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:54:06 +0000 http://tapaninaho.com/blog/2007/08/buy-a-new-os/#comment-50 isn't Windows2000 now outside of Microsoft's 'Extended Support' period. ...so effectively they're never patching or going to give a crap about it again ? bring back DOS 6.0 i say, back in those days you had to Learn something about how your computer worked just to make it do something. i'm kidding, but i can honestly say, if it wasn't for all the futzing around in DOS you had to do to get all those early '90s games to run i wouldn't be where i am today. which as it happens is in stockholm, today. isn’t Windows2000 now outside of Microsoft’s ‘Extended Support’ period.
…so effectively they’re never patching or going to give a crap about it again ?

bring back DOS 6.0 i say, back in those days you had to Learn something about how your computer worked just to make it do something. i’m kidding, but i can honestly say, if it wasn’t for all the futzing around in DOS you had to do to get all those early ’90s games to run i wouldn’t be where i am today.
which as it happens is in stockholm, today.

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