Happy 25th Anniversary Slackware Linux

Re:Happy 25th Anniversary Slackware Linux by philsnow on Monday July 16, 2018 @07:56PM (#17546190)

> getting a modem working in that era was a tremendous bitch

My "hand-cranked modem" story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6576823

> To this day, whenever the network is slow, I twirl the mouse in little circles subconsciously.

I still do this, it's theraputic

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Re:Happy 25th Anniversary Slackware Linux by userbinator on Monday July 16, 2018 @11:10PM (#17547012)

Also known as "manually pumping the message loop". I'm almost certain that that program was handling communications events on the same thread as the message pump, and only relying on a very slow timer to move them through. There was probably plenty of such badly-written software back then, because 16-bit Windows was cooperatively multitasked and had no concept of threads.