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Re:80386 Protection by lizknope on Friday February 27, 2026 @08:52AM (#47180497)
I remember I started my internship in June 1995. We were doing stuff with this brand new thing called the World Wide Web.

They gave us a win3.1 computer and Spyglass Mosaic which required the Win32s susbsystem.

http://www.win3x.org/win3board/viewtopic.php?t=4971&view=min

The full time guys all had a Sun on their desk next to their PC. We also had to run an IBM 3270 terminal emulator and X server to connect to the Suns. It was all so unstable. I rememember a bunch of "Win32s error" popups.

The other intern and I found a room full of decommissioned 486 machines, installed Linux and didn't tell anyone for a month. Everything worked great and then we started an assembly line of installing Linux on those old machines for all the older coworkers to take home.

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