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I used MS-DOS since 1.25, but I kinda wish I'd instead been using Unix all that time. MS-DOS had much better video games, but I didn't much play those. Overal
by neilv 3y ago
I used MS-DOS since 1.25, but I kinda wish I'd instead been using Unix all that time.
MS-DOS had much better video games, but I didn't much play those. Overall, the things I did do would've been better on Unix, and I would've gotten plugged into that scene earlier. (When I finally got access to Unix workstations, I sold my PC, and never again used another MS box at home.)
- mixmastamyk 3y agoUnix was very expensive at the time of course, meaning only used by big business. I remember asking a computer/IT teacher what it was, in the early 90s. Sounded interesting and somehow we found out about Minix and downloaded it from somewhere to tinker, maybe a BBS? Luckily this happened, because when I later got an IT job in the mid-nineties at a aerospace company I was good to go. At which point I discovered Linux and then BSD.
- neilv 3y agoAlso, engineering-ish small businesses, and universities, and the occasional non-profit saving money with dumb terminals where they'd otherwise need a PC on each desk. I once paid ~$100 for Coherent (Unix-like) for my '286, then sent it back due to the 64KB process limit, while I used Unix workstations at an internship. My next home computer was to buy a used Sun-3/75 from the local Sun office, for a fraction of a what a PC would cost.