14 Jun
2019
14 Jun
'19
9:21 a.m.
On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 14:53, Noel Chiappa via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I was speaking from a user's perspective; I never did much coding under
Windows (well, a fair amount under Cygwin, using only the portable I/O
library, but that's not really _Windows_ programming).
Well, me too. I don't really program anything any more and haven't
since the end of the 1980s.
From that perspective, 98SE was the sweet spot for me
(I don't have any
reliability issues, with the configs I run). I do have some XP machines,
and the Windows 10 laptop, but most of mine run 98SE.
I am astonished. I never found 98SE a stable or reliable OS and was
glad to get rid of it.
I keep DOS boot partitions around on some of my machines. E.g. my
testbed Thinkpad X200 has a bootable primary IBM PC DOS 7.1 (not 7.01)
primary partition. (The others contain A2, Haiku and Devuan.)
But the recent kit mostly has Win10 around, just in case I need to
reflash a BIOS or root a phone or something. I never normally use it
-- they run Ubuntu normally -- but it's there if I need it. (After an
hour of installing updates, anyway.)
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