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HecticEnergy

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For users - Macs are nice , but bloody expensive.

Windows 7 has been their best offering in years, but they cannot make 2 good ones in succession, so 8 is crap and it's always been like this. This time they have decided to completely omit Windows 9 and just roll with 10.
Nice to see such confidence in a product no?

Then there is another group of users we can reasonably define as cheapskates, coders, computer techies and so on. Those are the people Linux appeals to.

I built the machine i am typing this on 7 years ago,

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Apple doesn't make low end devices. They cost about what you would pay for an equivalent pc. They also seem to last forever.

They omitted 9 because they have a ton of legacy apps/code that looks for version numbers 9x so for interoperability they skipped "9" so I hear anyway...


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so hows everyone doing tonight ?

vaping, enjoying a glass of wine, watching my son eat dinner while my wife cooks something for us. Just got in a towel snapping match with the dish towels, my 2 year old chased after us waving a towel around! Lol


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That's old enough. It was time for a new one. It's not the computer I fear buying, it's the newer operating system. I love my Windows7 and have resisted Windows8 like the plague.

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Paul...get a Windows 8.1...I have it on my new pc....and I like it!

"Course, I only understand about half of it...but then , that's par for the usual:D

( more than i did with the Windows 8 which everyone that I talked to disliked immensely.
 

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I doubt anything is trying to support 1 :)
Interesting article, though I don't believe Microsoft success was credited to some stellar os, I think it was more their ability to get businesses onboard.


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You are correct of course, nobody messes with 1.0 anymore. But you may well be surprised at how old some of the gear in current use is.

I have at work a machine running W95 (so it's a 20 yr old OS) and it's running right now! Controlling that is a W98 machine..:blink:

It's an old waterjet, where the computers outlasted the running gear, but the computers work just fine. I thought about turning them off...

"I'm sorry Trunky, i cannot allow that"

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You are correct of course, nobody messes with 1.0 anymore. But you may well be surprised at how old some of the gear in current use is.

I have at work a machine running W95 (so it's a 20 yr old OS) and it's running right now! Controlling that is a W98 machine..:blink:

It's an old waterjet, where the computers outlasted the running gear, but the computers work just fine. I thought about turning them off...

"I'm sorry Trunky, i cannot allow that"

T

One of my old jobs had some 95 machines running some services. It worked... But wasn't fun to play with... Lol
I remember booting into 3.1 as a kid to play ski free. I think doom was a dos app :) I was writing Visual Basic in the 5th grade... Crazy that it took me until I was 23 to go to school for software engineering... Lol
In highschool I tooled around on dos machines to get them to run old dos games :)


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I can't find the thead that was discussing this, but this is what I grab when leaving the house for more than a few hours
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