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Re:DESQview/X: Forgotten mid-1990s OS from the future by tptacek on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @01:05PM (#29407009)
For me, it was like, I know how to write a DOS batch file, and here's Unix, you can do some of the same things.

I was smarter as an 18 year old than I am now, though! That's a thing my IRC friends from the time constantly talk about today; the people we were when we were shouting each other out in 1990s Phrack issues seem a lot sharper than we are now. We used to hang out and build "protected mode program loaders" for fun. You know, operating systems.

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Re:DESQview/X: Forgotten mid-1990s OS from the future by eashman on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @11:01PM (#29412431)
I was in the BBS scene in Baltimore in the mid-to-late 80s and totally relate. I think about some of the things I used to pull off on an Apple //e and then a 286 PC along with school and a job and wonder how I had time to do it.

Youthful energy? Or maybe the limitations of the tech made us work cleverly and thus made us prouder of the result.

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