On Dec 5, 2007 9:11 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <<a href="mailto:jeff@ocjtech.us">jeff@ocjtech.us</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On 12/5/07, Matthew Nuzum <<a href="mailto:newz@bearfruit.org">newz@bearfruit.org</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> I installed Windows for Workgroups 3.11 on DOS 6.22 in a vmware instance the<br>> other day. The entire operating system used less RAM than vim and booted in
<br>> about 15s. That's *with* Office v4's mom in the startup group. Fast? You<br>> bet. This system screams.<br>><br>> Oh how I don't miss the 16bit days.<br><br></div>I'm just amazed that you still have the installation media still
<br>around... Was there a point to the exercise or was it just one of<br>those "I wonder if..." things? As I web developer I suppose you could<br>justify it by installing NCSA Mosaic to see how your web site renders
<br>in a real legacy browser.<br></blockquote></div><br>I'd been hesitant to throw away my floppies. I decided I'd better use them while I still have one computer with a working floppy drive, so I loaded it onto a vmware instance for nostalgia's sake. I installed MS Office, Borland C++ and Netscape 4 as well.
<br><br>Next is OS/2 Warp 3. I have that on floppy too. At least it has a built in TCP/IP stack (I think).<br>-- <br>Matthew Nuzum<br>newz2000 on freenode