[Issue 387] When EOF of din is reached, a line of output is lost

Frits van Bommel fvbommel at REMwOVExCAPSs.nl
Sat Sep 30 10:33:49 PDT 2006


Stewart Gordon wrote:
> I know somebody who was, until a year or three ago, still doing 
> everything in MS-DOS.

I know someone who was, until a day or six ago, still doing everything 
in MS-DOS. With about 4MB RAM. At 12 Mhz (IIRC).

Of course, "everything" here means "everything pc-related he does" which 
in turn means "run one specific program". All he did with it was use it 
as a terminal that connected (over an old-fashioned modem) to a 
special-purpose feeding computer on the farm he runs.

Some people use old stuff because it works and they don't need more than 
it provides. Especially if they never connect to the net (so no security 
updates, latest-browser-features, etc. required).

That said though, he has since upgraded... to Windows 98 ;)

He still only runs one program that would run fine in DOS though. But 
now he runs it at 1 GHz.



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