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I didn't join the PC world until 1994 when Windows 3.x/DOS 6.x were new. Even from my corner of the computer universe I heard about how "bad" DOS 4.0 was initially. OS/2 Museum does a detailed history of it coinciding with its source release. #ComputerHistory #history #Retrocomputing https://www.os2museum.com/wp/dos/dos-4-0/
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randygalbraith
randygalbraith
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Kids these days! Why back in my day we had to choose between IBM DOS vs MS DOS while tracking which drive (left or right) was the A: drive on the IBM PC ;-). My compute era began with an Apple II in the fall of 1982. I really don't recall what version of DOS I used first. It feels like it must have been 2.x series. Yes, 4.0 was known to be horrible! Cheers, -Randy
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Your friendly 'net denizen
Your friendly 'net denizen
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Yeah, I recall sticking with DOS 3.2 and only upgrading when DOS 5.0 was released. I mean, there were multiple reasons for this, but one of them was 4.0's reputation. 😆
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Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC
Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC
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Like so many PC users at the time, I never even used MS-DOS 4.0, I went from 3.3 straight to 4.01.
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Jodi K
Jodi K
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I remember going to an event where Bill Gates himself was pushing what became Windows. Except it was vaporware. So he used... a Mac. I nearly died laughing.

Back in my day the disc drives were actual giant discs!

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Hank G ☑️
Hank G ☑️
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@Jodi K I'd love to see video of that! I was just watching a video on the history of Excel. They talked about some presentation at Tavern on the Green announcing the product and demoing it. I would have loved to see video of that too.
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Jodi K
Jodi K
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@Hank G ☑️ I can't tell you how many times I wished I had a video of that. But no movie camera in your pocket back then. :(

It was a joint Mac /PC user group meeting. I don't know what was better, watching the Mac people when he did it, or watching the PC people with their jaws hanging open because they had never seen WYSIWIG before.

Soooo funny.

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Gorgeous na Shock!
Gorgeous na Shock!
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Love the shoutout for COMPAQ DOS 3.31. Still my go-to for sub-386 machines!

Also love the line "IBM made another mistake in assuming that it was free to change many undocumented aspects of DOS." One of the classic blunders developers still make today. 😌

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Mark Wollschlager
Mark Wollschlager
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For a while I supported an office tht was 1/2 sun workstations and the others were Pc's running OS/2. They were running preview versions of OS/2 v1.2 Extended Edition that had just started supporting TCP/IP and Ethernet.
Good times.
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Jodi K
Jodi K
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I had to run my own cables to connect my Mac to the printer in another part of the office, and figure out how to network everything together. The PC IT people either didn't know how, or didn't want to be bothered doing it.

Oh yeah, and we were doing a big project for IBM at the time. Lots of documentation, booklets, handouts, slides, etc. I did it all on my Mac. I wanted to put little Apple logos on the bottom of the slides, but my boss wouldn't let me. Spoilsport.

And then of course, once the rest of the office saw the fonts and the graphics and etc. I got very busy.

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eelder1
eelder1
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That's about the time I go a PC and used an MS DOS 3 and eventually Windows 3.x. Used XTPro to get around in DOS.
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