X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: vjp2 DOT at AT at DOT BioStrategist DOT dot DOT dot DOT com Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: DOS as "comfort" computing Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 04:45:11 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Samani Marions Panyaught NYC-11357-3436-287-USA Lines: 26 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: panix1.panix.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1604292311 653 166.84.1.1 (2 Nov 2020 04:45:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse AT panix DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 04:45:11 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/2.4.4-20191224 ("Millburn") (NetBSD/9.0 (amd64)) Bytes: 2030 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com 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. -- Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus blog: panix.com/~vjp2/ruminatn.htm - = - web: panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm facebook.com/vasjpan2 - linkedin.com/in/vasjpan02 - biostrategist.com ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}---