Old OS memories

[Shintaro]

Hi,

I was just taking a break, wasting time on the net, when I came across this site WinWorld.
I just had to download Dos 5.0 and Windows 3.11. I installed them in a virtual machine, completely forgetting myself I assigned DOS 512Mb of RAM.

Aahh brings back the days of fault finding Win 3.11 with Novell 3.1 / 4.0 on coax networks.

Cheers.

 

[mgrzeg]

Try this: Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word for Windows available to public - The Official Microsoft Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs :))

m.

 

[Shintaro]

Already knew about it. I posted it to this Sysnative forum earlier.

 

[mgrzeg]

Haven't noticed, sorry:)
I remember the times, when a friend of mine bought a brand new 40MB HD and we asked him 'what are you going to do with so much space! You never gonna fill it!" :) Jeffrey Richter wrote in his 'Advanced Windows NT' (1993):

I have neglected to say how much memory can be addressed by the 80386 in 32-bit protected mode (the mode used by Windows NT). The answer is a whopping 4 GB. Not only is it 4 GB, but each application running in this mode has its own 4-GB address space, which should be more than enough memory for even the most demanding of applications. The only problem is that memory isn't free. To purchase 4 GB of memory would cost approximately $204,800 at the time I'm writing this.
Most of you probably can't afford to walk up to your nearest computer store, lay this kind of money down on the counter, and push a wheelbarrow full of RAM back to your house. Besides, even if you could buy all this RAM, where would you put it? It certainly wouldn't fit in any 80386-based computer I've ever seen!

m.

 

[jcgriff2]

My "Old OS Memories" - IBM System/360 -- System/390! :)

And of course the great programming languages -

• VS COBOL II
• PL/1
• CICS
• VSAM files
• ISAM files
• EBCDIC file format
• JCL - to tie it all together (PROD batch jobs)

And many more good ones.

I went back into Finance/Accounting and only used Windows PCs for mainframe DB access.

It was not until late 2007 that I ever ventured behind the Desktop. I learned Windows under Vista -- to find out how to remedy a BSOD epidemic that hit because the repair shop could not fix it. :0

The cause - a wifi driver! Hardware was fine.

 

[Temmu]

avondale ship yards still used punch cards (hollerith) into the 1990's.
i used to download data from a 360 system onto 3.5" floppies for various users.
what a hoot!
when avondale got rid of its ancient ibm system, which filled a room the size of a basketball court, it replaced it with 2 mainframes the size of very large household refrigerators! so, there they were, 2 refrigerators, back to back in the middle of a basketball court!

i knew the sysop, a venerable guru, and he had soooo much disk space available, i backed all of our (windows & sun) servers up to his disk space! lol

 

[Patrick]

My oldest OS memory is Windows XP. I am young!

 

[Temmu]

lol!
soon, like steam or electricity, no one will remember why the introduction of personal computing & the internet meant anything at all!

 

[x BlueRobot]

My oldest OS memory is Windows 98, it was a old second hand computer which I used to play some weird 90's game.