ref: Microsoft barriers to Linux adoption on the desktop
Rickey Moore
wayward4now at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 16 02:09:40 UTC 2006
--- Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > Would someone show me their copy of Windows running on an
> 8086/8088?
>
> Hmm. As I recall, Widows 1.0 was pretty bad. I no longer have a
> copy.
> I do have a copy of DesqView, which I have on occasion run on my
> 8088.
> It's been a while now. The 8088 machine is almost (but not quite)
> retired. The hard disc is dead, and it runs off of floppy only.
> 5 1/4 inch, of course.
>
> > Or for that matter an 80286, except as an interesting toy? I'm
> willing
> > to stipulate that MS DOS ran well on those processors. As did PC
> DOS,
> > and DRDOS, and CPM/86 (and probably a few more that I'm missing).
Geoworks! It ran on top of DOS, as did Windows, but it would work
well on a 286 and a hercules display, in 64K of memory. I really wish
they would donate it to the world and port it to Linux. You could
load it on that 286 is far less time than OO on a Pentium class
machine, and still do basically the same job. Type and save/print.
They shoulda been contenders, Ric
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