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Subject:	DOS as "comfort" computing
Date:	Mon, 2 Nov 2020 04:45:11 +0000 (UTC)
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I tend to feel most comfortable using my DOS computers. When I first got a
Windows machine in 1995, I threw it out the window after three months because
it was so cluttered.  I first used a DEC20 in 1978 and DOS in 1985, but I
spent a lot of the 1990s glued to DOS machines as my folks were dying, and I
am most comfortable with all that software as well as my tweaks. I had used
emacs 1978-84 and when I got back into it ca 1990, I felt more natural than
other stuff I had used in between. Analogously, a childhood friend used to
change phone numbers every two years, but I only still remember the number
he had in second grade by heart.  There is something to the first thing you
learned. Am I the only one who thinks like this.

Also, I have found DOSBOX allows me to do things on arcane OS computers witht
he least effort. eg I have a machine with the LINPUS version of Linux, which
refuses most tweaks. I am going to soon try DOSBOX on Android, because the
ports of unox quant stuff on it are rather awkward.


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