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You can compute like a PC user in the 1980s. There are various word processors, database utilities, and programming languages available. There are even old scho
by jamesgeck0 7y ago
You can compute like a PC user in the 1980s. There are various word processors, database utilities, and programming languages available. There are even old school networking tools for newsreading, IRC, telnet, and gopher.
I remember "DOS for Dummies" (the seminal Dummies book) being helpful when I was starting out; you can probably find a used copy for the cost of shipping at this point.
- vocatus_gate 7y ago"butwhy.gif"
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y agoTo illustrate how unnecessarily complicated and slow modern computing has become? You can still perform many of the computing tasks you do today on 50GB monstrosity OSs that take 3 seconds+ to start an application from and SSD.
- Koshkin 7y agoLittle or no overhead (almost bare-metal).