Whereas I came from the completely opposite side. (Macintosh) System 7, and later Mac OS 8.

No command line to be seen anywhere in the system unless you found a third-party application yourself, and even then it was extremely simple and just built as if to say "it's possible to have a command-line on the Macintosh" (really just traversing the file system, managing files, and maybe launching applications - no scripting whatsoever if I remember correctly, and obviously no editing settings files because the files where any settings were stored weren't ever plain text).

I mean, I still quite enjoy using the "classic" Mac OS, but I mainly run Arch Linux.

I installed OS 9 in SheepShaver recently, just to revisit HyperCard. Well, and a few other old games. I think it was while I was installing Diablo, I hear a synthesized voice say; "It's not my fault. Installing Microsoft Library." Oh, Apple.

-No internet integration as mandatory OS part

But definitively, best reason is that file search worked.

The days before windows were dark days for PC gaming. I remember a large failure rate at getting games to even install. Running them could be a major pain in the ass too. Ultima VII was one of those games that you had to have a separate super clean autoexec and config files to load memory extenders, and nothing else. Windows with Directx revolutionized pc gaming as far as I am concerned.

True. I am using Vista on my main laptop since 2007 and I am perfectly fine with it. There are tons of programs that I am daily using that doesnt work on windows 7 or linux and I didnt even re-install it since day one.

What's a Windows 10?

Bagsy the gold ticket, we have found BOTH Windows Vista users who didn't have problems!


On a totally different note, I had the Automatic Repair Loop of doom problem on my Win8.1 install. That is where it tells you it needs to repair something or other, and to restart, loop over and over. I think I fixed it for now, had to force driver signing override as the given solutions on the web didn't work. But its a good reminder to me to get a new Win7 install and bugger this 8 version into the same depth of hell that Vista has gone to.

I find it funny because I asked the same thing to the boss of the software development company we were taking a tour some years ago when he showed us the main server, and I didn't know that question was that usual back then.

My first OS was MS-DOS 3.2. I also had DOS Plus but I didn't use it much. Also, anyone of you remember GEM Desktop?

A set of handcuffs pretending to be an accessory.

Gem... only briefly while using emulation, but i do remember seeing it at least once.

Because it didn't have administrator profile/guest profile/public profile, rights of usage, forced accessibility cr@p on your system, hidden folders and ridiculously overpriced games!

Here's a reason Dos is better than windows... Built in Ramdrive support.

A miserable pile of secrets!

Nonsense. Everyone knows that [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(8-bit_operating_system)]GEOS[/url] is the best operating system ever made!

Will DOSBox ever have hardware acceleration? That would be awesome.