[Cialug] Re: DSMGG LAN Party (WAS: Administrative stuff)

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Dec 5, 2007 9:11 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:

> On 12/5/07, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
> >
> > I installed Windows for Workgroups 3.11 on DOS 6.22 in a vmware instance
> the
> > other day. The entire operating system used less RAM than vim and booted
> in
> > about 15s. That's *with* Office v4's mom in the startup group. Fast? You
> > bet. This system screams.
> >
> > Oh how I don't miss the 16bit days.
>
> I'm just amazed that you still have the installation media still
> around...  Was there a point to the exercise or was it just one of
> those "I wonder if..." things?  As I web developer I suppose you could
> justify it by installing NCSA Mosaic to see how your web site renders
> in a real legacy browser.
>

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.

Next is OS/2 Warp 3. I have that on floppy too. At least it has a built in
TCP/IP stack (I think).
-- 
Matthew Nuzum
newz2000 on freenode
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