... and you're worried that XP support is ending!

[CPallini]

That makes sense. There's a lof of fluff around, just to promote mediocrity.

Veni, vidi, vici.

[Graham Cottle]

I can remember the time when I was more into hardware than software and used to use 286 PCs for CAD and the like. Entirely DOS based. We asked for a word processor or text editor and the sysadmin asked "What do engineers need an editor for? What's wrong with Edlin?" Needless to say when we heard that one, we went and found some piece of freeware off the front of a magazine...

[Maximilien]

until your favorite app is upgraded and will not be backward compatible!!!

I'd rather be phishing!

[Super Lloyd]

Good on him! ;P

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[Ravi Bhavnani]

"Disk operating system computers were popular in the 1980s and early 1990s". According to aunty, today's operating systems don't work with disks. :| /ravi

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[47_MasoN_47]

I guess it's still a step up from a typewriter.

[Chris Quinn]

A week or two ago my ex-wife was trying to impress me with the details of the new laptop her dad had just bought. "Did you know they don't come with hard drives any more?" she asked - "they come with it all on a thumb drive" I asked her if she meant operating system disc, but she insisted she was right - no hard drive. She then said "It's got a 15" screen, an A10 processor, 4Gb of memory and a 1Tb hard drive" I asked if it doesn't come with a hard drive, why has it got a 1Tb hard drive? She started to fluster then, and changed the subject!

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[Jeremy Falcon]

He makes a good point. Someone should introduce him to vim.

Jeremy Falcon

[Lost User]

That is why she the the ex-wife, you didn't let her win all the discussions/arguments.

[Jeremy Falcon]

Dalek Dave wrote:

What a pretentious oOik.

I had to correct your capitalization. Remember, you must like my change to not be pretentious.

Jeremy Falcon

[Chris Quinn]

Why? I have my own bed!

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[Dan Neely]

The new subject involved your sleeping on the couch?

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

[mikepwilson]

XyWrite FTW

[LloydA111]

This is the BBC we are talking about, they have the WORST reporting on Science and Technology you will ever see.

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[DaveX86]

I used to use PCWrite[^] ...I would still use it if it was still around. Went looking for the source code to try and port it to newer operating systems but alas, it was nowhere to be found. You could apparently get the source code if you bought the full version.

[Chris Quinn]

ED for CP/M was one of my first!

========================================================= I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka. =========================================================

[hairy_hats]

Brisingr Aerowing wrote:

the one I have works perfectly fine for what I use it for.

Stopping your table from rocking?

[mikepwilson]

I came to personal computers just as the sandbag of apple 2 and dos had overtaken the idol of cp/m, so I never really got to noodle with it.

[adriancs]

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[Mike Hankey]

Prexactly

Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever! Rich Tennant 5th Wave