My 486 laptop pwns your FX-57 64-bit

So

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All windows before 95 == a Dos shell....

95-Me were argably shells for dos too...
 

Eli

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Originally posted by: So
All windows before 95 == a Dos shell....

95-Me were argably shells for dos too...
They were ....
 

So

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Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: So
All windows before 95 == a Dos shell....

95-Me were argably shells for dos too...
They were ....


It's been so long...I didn't remember if they just used dos like a bootloader.
 
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Originally posted by: mindwreck
your account just got ATOTed. no more bandwidth

Wow that's lame. I had this site back in like 9th grade or something. I don't even know my password. Damn. I need to transfer this to my actual host =(
 

Shawn

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Why would you be running Windows 1.0 on a 486? Windows 3.1 would run just fine. Infact I had Win95 running on my old 486 100MHz.
 

So

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Originally posted by: Shawn
Why would you be running Windows 1.0 on a 486? Windows 3.1 would run just fine. Infact I had Win95 running on my old 486 100MHz.

I ran it on a 486-66

Christ that was slow.
 

jiwq

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speaking of old school, i remember back when my old computer had 3 LEDs: one for power, one for hd activity, and one for TURBO. if a game got too hard, i could slow it down by turning off turbo.
 
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Originally posted by: So
Originally posted by: Shawn
Why would you be running Windows 1.0 on a 486? Windows 3.1 would run just fine. Infact I had Win95 running on my old 486 100MHz.

I ran it on a 486-66

Christ that was slow.


Oh I had Windows 98SE running on a Pentium 90 MHz. Worked damn well. I had to find a machine old enough to take Windows 1.0 that's what I meant =P. Of course Windows 3.1 would work fine. I had Win 95 on a K5 run perfectly fine too....
 

Czar

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Originally posted by: DLeRium
Originally posted by: So
Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: So
All windows before 95 == a Dos shell....

95-Me were argably shells for dos too...
They were ....


It's been so long...I didn't remember if they just used dos like a bootloader.


No I thought it ended at 98. ME got rid of the whole dos thing....

All windows95, 98 and ME ran on dos, just like Windows 3.11 did and all the versions before that. The difference is that they just hid it better.
 

Kelemvor

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Is that from maximum PC? THey did a "History of Windows" thing in the latest issue. We all the way thorugh ever revision. Was fun to relive some of that stuff.
 

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Originally posted by: DLeRium
Link fix0red for more bandwidth

Negative. The link is dead. "The operation timed out when attempting to contact www.montavista04.com"

EDIT: It works now. /shrug
 

tami

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the link worked fine for me. damn complainers :p

OP: why did you run windows 1.0 on your laptop when 3.1 was out then? :confused:
 

nakedfrog

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My High School actually had a 286 or two with that installed. I was going through replacing the batteries on the 286 since most of them were dying at the same time. A bunch of them had the "Stone" virus too... computer booted up, then displayed a text message that said "This PC is now stoned" and wouldn't do anything else :p
 

pillage2001

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Originally posted by: DLeRium
Originally posted by: So
Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: So
All windows before 95 == a Dos shell....

95-Me were argably shells for dos too...
They were ....


It's been so long...I didn't remember if they just used dos like a bootloader.


No I thought it ended at 98. ME got rid of the whole dos thing....

Yeah and ME sucked big time.