Text 1087, 64 rader
Skriven 2007-07-24 04:04:00 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38.9)
   Kommentar till text 1084 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
Ärende: About using sln_sf
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Hey mark!

Jul 23 21:45 07, mark lewis wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 ml> well, as i seem to recall, everything was 8-bit and then 16-bit 
 ml> before the years passed that have brought us 32-bit and finally, just 
 ml> really starting to get around, 64-bit ;)

For me it started out as 64-bit and briefly went backwards from there.  Never
had to worry about 8-bit other than messaging and some peripheral hardware, but
not much.  Most of it was 16-bit even back then.  The mainframe was 64-bit
though.  I can't recall if the original Unix I encountered was 32 or 64
(Solaris) but I think it was 32-bit.  Don't quote me on that.

 MK>> Always was 32-bit though. 

 ml> nope, i beg to differ... ya gotta go back further ;)

No I don't.

 MK>> Also always multitasking and multiuser. 

 ml> yeah... so? that's got nothing to do with the cost of eggs in china 
 ml> or the price of beans in russia ;) can we say "strawman"? ;)

Nope.  I totally disagree.

 ml> gates isn't the do all, be all that everyone thinks he and his 
 ml> company are... FYI: there is 32-bit DOS available... OSS even, IIRC 
 ml> ;)  freedos is the first that comes to mind ;)

I thought freedos was still 16-bit.  Haven't seen it in ages but still run
across references to it every now and then.  Las dos I had direct dealings with
was pc-dos.  Made the switch to linux from that but briefly toyed with os/2
then.  Linux won out though and no regrets here.

 ml> not the "think" part as you keep throwing it up at everyone every 
 ml> chance you get... you're always spouting "dos-think" this and 
 ml> "dos-think" that... just drop it completly is all i'm saying...

Aw but mom!!!  That's where the fun is!!!

 ml> no, "DOS-think" only covers the shortcomings related to DOS and DOS 
 ml> is =much= larger than bill gates and his crap... you, of all people 
 ml> should know that... in fact, you do ;)

Shhhhhhhh.

 ml> now, tell me where is the DOS-think when it comes to OS/2?

99.9999999% of Fido software.

 ml> i'll bet 
 ml> you can't as you've never played in that arena ;)

Long enough to know that Linux was the best choice at the time.  Turned out to
be more correct than I imagined at the time.

Life is good,
Maurice

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