XPost: alt.comp.freeware   
   From: super.pooh@fluffyunderbelly.invalid   
      
   On 28/06/2024 10:59, p-0 0-h the cat (coder)   
    wrote:   
   > On 28/06/2024 05:05, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >> On Wed, 26 Jun 2024 22:03:00 +0000, "p-0 0-h the cat (coder)   
   >> " wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> TBH, I prefer to run stuff that old on the original hardware for lots of   
   >>> reasons but that's a debate for another time. I look forward to your   
   >>> reply to occam as I am genuinely intrigued about what programs from that   
   >>> era are so important to you that you recommend foregoing Microsoft's   
   >>> latest and greatest. To me it's simple. It will soon be their only   
   >>> supported OS and security updates are my utmost priority. "Avoid Windows   
   >>> 11" you say. Is that "at all costs"? Sounds a bit reckless to me in   
   >>> exchange for a bit of nostalgia you could indulge in many other ways.   
   >>> No?   
   >>   
   >> Yes, I do have nostalgia for research data  I have collected over the   
   >> last 30 years, still keep adding to, and still want to access every   
   >> day.   
   >>   
   >> Not all of us use computers just to play silly games with.   
   >   
   > Yeah, I don't know why people want to play games. Writing them is a   
   > blast though and very challenging. Databases however are not my thing,   
   > but each to their own. I wouldn't call them silly mind, the only way I   
   > can describe my feelings about them is akin to how I imagine it feels to   
   > have an alien sucking your life force out of you.   
   >   
   > I am still struggling with this 8 bit thing though. The applications you   
   > mention seem to run on DOS. Wasn't that 16 bit. I didn't really play   
   > with PCs back then much. I mean 8 bit processors only directly address   
   > 64k although you can page in blocks of memory but even so the amount of   
   > data you seem to suggest you have collected would indicate a bit of a   
   > struggle going on so how does that all work.   
      
   Steve seems to have vaporized. Perhaps he will return. Anyway, for those   
   of us who are silly and not serious like Steve it seems you can run   
   MSDOS on Windows 11 using VMWare Workstation. Probably other DOS   
   variants as well. It's a serious option for silly people and you get to   
   use Windows 11. Yeah, groan, but yunno security updates. This is not a   
   cue Shadow. You have been warned!   
      
      
      
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