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K. Ryabitsev
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Kids these days! Back in '95, we got a Windows Blue Screen of Death 5-10 times a day, and that was on a *good* day.
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@monsieuricon Yeah... And the rest of us were using OS/2, which just worked... 😇
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K. Ryabitsev
monsieuricon
@theron29 maybe, but didn't you have to run two computers just so you could have a single whole OS?
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Dario Landazuri
kuoirad@infosec.exchange@monsieuricon Somehow I'm not sure I could see you using a Windows box, Icon. :)
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K. Ryabitsev
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@kuoirad Hah! I used whatever the college had, and that was Windows 95. :)
I didn't start with Linux until I installed Red Hat 5.1 some time in '97. I remember running "vi" for the first time, then yelling for a while in frustration as everything I tried just beeped at me, and then hitting the "reset" button.
I didn't start with Linux until I installed Red Hat 5.1 some time in '97. I remember running "vi" for the first time, then yelling for a while in frustration as everything I tried just beeped at me, and then hitting the "reset" button.
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Dario Landazuri
kuoirad@infosec.exchange@monsieuricon Sounds like me, except I think I started with 5.2 around '99. Mucked around as a user on a Solaris or SunOS box before that. Lots of pine and ircii.
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K. Ryabitsev
monsieuricon
You all think I'm exaggerating, but I distinctly recall ending all sentences with ".<Ctrl-S>" when typing assignments because there was always a high chance of Windows crashing mid-paragraph.
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@monsieuricon I don't remember Windows crashing for me all that often, but my father's advice "to Ctrl-S all the time" got so deep that even today I type :w after each flurry of keystrokes. Even in freaking Google Docs, I still try to save after each sentence. It's a sort of second-hand PTSD I guess.
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