Windows

[Speed]

I'm too lazy to hook up my cd burner, and go get some blank cds. I have AOL, which is 100 times better than IRC. I have access to everything I want, I'm just too lazy to do what needs to be done.

[Raybdbomb]

i have machines up running xp pro, 2000 pro, 98 SE, 95, 3.1 and dos... i have an old laptop that runs 3 of those on 3 diff partitions on the 2 gig drive, it's got 98, 3.1 and dos 6.22.



man i found some old win95 floppies, that was tight... it was the last winOS on floppy, and i don't want to put on an external cd-rom so that worked ;)

[MrBlack]

I grew up on DOS, I still use winbloze 98 SE right now tho...I use 2k at work, and I'd still prefer dos hehe

[Relorian]

i run windows XP on my current sys, and on my 386 (which is on right now) i use windows 3.1 and Dos 6.something. Id much rather be in Xp Pro than windows 98se....



Relorian

[SuperMan]

I got the japanese version of windows 95 somewhere, not installed though.

It seemed to be pretty much the same thing as regular windows 95. Everything was just in japanese.



I run XP now though, would still be running 95 if it would run all the new software out there and would support the newest hardware.

[Speed]

I'd run dos if it supported multitasking and everything else. Actually, I'd run linux if it supported everything. I prefer a command line interface. I do most of my stuff in the dos shell anyways.

[Sean]

Yea I liked DOS because when you actually deleted shit, it WAS deleted. Not hidden in your trashbin, or it didnt turn out to be just a shortcut you deleted.



But I must say everyone always bitches about Winbloze crashing 3 times a day blah blah. My WinXP NEVER crashes. Runs in tip top shape at all times. However when I work on other Windows computers they crash all the time. So I think that 99% of the cases that result in Windows crashing is either not frequently taking care of your system (scandisk, cleaningout etc) or the program you are running itself is faulty.

[Sean]

Also back in the day with DOS my dad and I made this badass ANSI/Batch File menu system. Everytime you started up the computer it would come to a big blue screen with different options, F1-F12 or whatever to bring up submenus for different games or programs.

[Hobo_Bill]

I agree, DOS was more direct, more reliable. But my WinXP has no problems - other than not being able to activate the stupid pos - it never crashes, all hardware I put in installs automatically, so no more driver problems. Oh, one thing that sucks is I can't get my DVD-Rom drive to work, but all in all WinXP is the best version of windows out to date, IMO..

[NIN]

-Sean-

win ME is known for crashing

win98 crashes on occasion

(so its not totally scandisk's fault - its the OS's)