Back when I had purchased my 1st windows PC (386SX-20), I quickly upgrade to WfW3.11 and found it TREMENDOUS for running my Spitfire BBS in DOS on that platform. Love it!
Back when I had purchased my 1st windows PC (386SX-20), I quickly upgrade
to WfW3.11 and found it TREMENDOUS for running my Spitfire BBS in DOS on
that platform. Love it!
Those 386SXes were everywhere! I had one as my desktop, and later had a caller donate a mobo for the BBS. Underpowered for Windows, but ran GEOWorks wonderfully.
Back when I had purchased my 1st windows PC (386SX-20), I quickly upgrade to WfW3.11 and found it TREMENDOUS for running my Spitfire BBS in DOS on that platform. Love it!
After I had that PC for a few years, I got my first job, and the first thing I bought when I got my first paycheck or two was to buy parts to build a new PC (with an AMD 5x86-133 - which was a 486DX4-133).
Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
In the mid-90s, I had read about GeoWorks but never saw it personally (except I think in AOL software - I think I read AOL used GeoWorks for their AOL desktop environment). I thought GeoWorks sounded fairly interesting, and was another example of why I thought it was a bit disappointing that Windows took off as much as it did.
Nightfox wrote to SirRonmit <=-
For a few years, I had a hand-me-down 386SX-16. I got it to run
Microsoft Flight Simulator 5, which required a 386 (I previously had a 286), and although the 386SX-16 could run it, Flight Simulator 5 ran
very slowly on it.
SirRonmit wrote to Nightfox <=-
I believe I kept that old 386SX-20 up until the Pentium 1s came out. It was an awesome machine and we worked the heck outta it!
For a few years, I had a hand-me-down 386SX-16. I got it to run
We used to have DOOM LAN parties in 1994-1995. We'd do a 6 person deathmatch over IPX in the office and use a 6-party conference call for vox during the game.[1]
Most of the users at the time had at least a 486SX25, most had full blown 486DXes. I saw one of the customer service people playing, and the screen size was shrunk down to what seemed like postage-stamp size. I asked him why, and he said his computer was too slow. I looked at it and realized he had an old 386sx-16 that was lying around when he was hired and they gave it to him instead of requesting a new one.
I got him a decent 486DX system and he proceeded to kick my ass in-game. Serves me right.
For a few years, I had a hand-me-down 386SX-16. I got it to run Microsoft
After I had that PC for a few years, I got my first job, and the first thing I bought when I got my first paycheck or two was to buy parts to build a new PC (with an AMD 5x86-133 - which was a 486DX4-133).
I had a tech support team who had their own workgroup server and were
all running WfW 3.11, we needed the built-in networking stack. What I didn't realize until I visited with them one day was that they had
turned on every feature in WfW, and it was pretty impressive. They had a shared calendar, their own Microsoft mail post-office for
inter-department mail, file and print sharing and messaging set up.
I had a 386DX40 that felt like it kept up with 486es for some time. I
used it as my home desktop for way too long, skipped the 486es
completely and replaced it with a Pentium Pro system.
We used to have DOOM LAN parties in 1994-1995. We'd do a 6 person deathmatch over IPX in the office and use a 6-party conference call forThat is ingenuity, not a shameless use of technology. Pre-Discord days.
vox during the game.[1]
Mhansel739 wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
That is ingenuity, not a shameless use of technology. Pre-Discord days. You wanted to play a game AND communicate and talk trash to the other players. Hell yeah, 6-way conference call using the phone system. BRILLIANT! The technology and bandwidth back in those days was not anywhere near ready for what we do now. Hats off to you.
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