Comments on: Anti? Not Really, Just Not Pro Either!

By: Eyebee

Eyebee — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:07:32 +0000

I bought my first 'IBM-Compatible' PC back in 1986. It came with MS-DOS 3.3 and a set of half a dozen 3.5 floppies marked "Windows 1.0" I installed them, and played with this pretty looking thing for a while. It had a notepad type orgram in it, and a paint program, and, as I recall, not much else. There were no other applications back then.

I got bored with it after a short while, and deleted it.

I upgraded a few times over the next few years, but it wasn't until some time in early 1994, when I finally installed Windows 3.1 on my computer. I was more than happy with DOS, and it was, for the time, quite fast and responsive on my 386-based machine with a huge 8MB RAM. Windows turned it into a relative slug, so much of the time, I stayed in DOS anyway.

I've always thought that those DOS days were of great benifit, as I've never been unable to use, or been intimidated by a command line prompt.

By: Chuck Boyd

Chuck Boyd — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:50:31 +0000

Years ago when a buddy was “teaching” me how to use a computer, we were using DOS. I had the little template sitting above the keyboard and each key offered 3 different steps as you shifyed. Had to jot down lots of notes to myself.

I asked him about this new “windows” thingy I had heard about and he laughed and said it was just a fad. “Hard to do better than DOS, ” he concluded.

By: Eyebee

Eyebee — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:07:32 +0000

By: Chuck Boyd

Chuck Boyd — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:50:31 +0000

I asked him about this new “windows” thingy I had heard about and he laughed and said it was just a fad. “Hard to do better than DOS, ” he concluded.