Favorite MS Operating System
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Favorite MS Operating System
What is your favorite MS operating system? Mine would have to be MSDOS6.22, and the ultimite machine would be DOS6.22, Win3.1, and 98SE. What about you guys?
EDIT: Fixed spelling errors -Z!re
EDIT: Fixed spelling errors -Z!re
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I have to say that by isolation the Windows 98 DOS 8.0 which I've done already. It is my best OS .
My Ideal Machine is a DOS 8.0, Windows 98SE I don't care for 16 bit Windows however, there's still alot of things out there for it...so I wouldn't reject installing it . all with a Linux Version. and I'd be happy.
My Ideal Machine is a DOS 8.0, Windows 98SE I don't care for 16 bit Windows however, there's still alot of things out there for it...so I wouldn't reject installing it . all with a Linux Version. and I'd be happy.
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Windows XP Pro with SP2, without a doubt. When configured correctly, it's decently lightweight, and it's hands down the stablest Microsoft OS I've ever used. Plus, I've never had any trouble running a huge number of QB (and DOS in general) programs with it. Of course, there are the stubborn few, but those are usually just old games. If I really want to run DOS programs, I reboot and start FreeDOS instead.
I'm writing this on a Pentium II with Windows 95a. It's fatally crashed or locked up three times already in the past two days, and I've only been doing a little simple software development. But I have to admire the fact that the machine keeps running even when C: has literally 0 free bytes. I've managed to slim it down a bit and now I'm up to 10.4 MB free on C: (out of 514 MB) and 36.3 MB free on D: (out of 695 MB). Lightweight software is nice, but I'll take stability over size or even speed any day.
I'm writing this on a Pentium II with Windows 95a. It's fatally crashed or locked up three times already in the past two days, and I've only been doing a little simple software development. But I have to admire the fact that the machine keeps running even when C: has literally 0 free bytes. I've managed to slim it down a bit and now I'm up to 10.4 MB free on C: (out of 514 MB) and 36.3 MB free on D: (out of 695 MB). Lightweight software is nice, but I'll take stability over size or even speed any day.
Good point...I would agree if I had a less powerful system. But when you've got 2GB of ram, 150MB doesn't really matter.Z!re wrote:Hear hear =)DaveUnit wrote:Windows 2000 pro, its windows XP without all the flair eating up around 150 mb of ram(according to Call for Help) and DOS programs don't suck on it.
Thats actually the only reason I dont go XP, it uses too much of the system resources
ShowoffPete wrote:Good point...I would agree if I had a less powerful system. But when you've got 2GB of ram, 150MB doesn't really matter.Z!re wrote:Hear hear =)DaveUnit wrote:Windows 2000 pro, its windows XP without all the flair eating up around 150 mb of ram(according to Call for Help) and DOS programs don't suck on it.
Thats actually the only reason I dont go XP, it uses too much of the system resources
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The crapbox I'm using right now is so freakin' old, I'm embarassed to tell you guys the specs.
All the parts from my new PC are currently on their way. 512 MB RAM, 3 GHZ processor, blah blah blah I won't bore you with details. But its a pretty decent gaming rig I made on a strict budget, I bought my 120 gb hard drive last night and I just need to pick up the DVD drive... okay I'll stop rambling 'bout the new comp.
But yeah I want Windows taking up as little resources as I can so FEAR and Unreal can run as good as possible. So YAY Windows 2000!
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All the parts from my new PC are currently on their way. 512 MB RAM, 3 GHZ processor, blah blah blah I won't bore you with details. But its a pretty decent gaming rig I made on a strict budget, I bought my 120 gb hard drive last night and I just need to pick up the DVD drive... okay I'll stop rambling 'bout the new comp.
But yeah I want Windows taking up as little resources as I can so FEAR and Unreal can run as good as possible. So YAY Windows 2000!
~Dave~
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My fav OS? I actually have several which are divided in the better and best list.
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- BETTER
MS-Dos 5.0 (underwich I learned to program)
MS-Dos 6.2 (underwich I continued to program and still do)
Windows 3.1 & 3.11
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows NT
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows 2003
Windows Vista
- BEST
Linux Red Hat 5.1
Linux Red Hat 8.0
Linux Fedora
and ofcourse
Qbinux
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agreed, i waited a few years before switching from 98-XP, but the difference was amazing, no more crashes.Pete wrote:Windows XP Pro........ all the MS operating systems I had before XP Pro were fatally flawed in one way or another, but XP Pro does everything I want and NEVER crashes for me.
The only thing XP Pro doesn't do well is run DOS programs... but it doesn't bother me enough to care.