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teroyk is offline teroyk
2020-03-24 , 21:18
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Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
Anyway, the install was from a pile of floppies, maybe a stack of 12 or so 3,5"HD disks.
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my brand new 386sx with whopping 4MB of DRAM! (and a huge HDD of 40MB which I was really proud of)
Little bit earlier that I see first time the Linux. That time I see one guy when he install with 18 disks and installing it to new expensive 486/66Mhz with 16MB of RAM and I remember he had some problems with monitor information to X-window, but at last he get it works with some moire-effect. I think total installation time was about 8 hours. And remember how I tell him that it is not as useful than TOS on my Atari so he continue use OS/2 in his PC.

Some years later I installed PTS-DOS 6, Suse Linux 5 and OS/2 in 486/33Mhz (16MB RAM/500MB HD) choosing OS with boot manager from OS/2. And after that I didn't liked Linux, I only think that it will have more future than Windows ..And I continue use more Atari than that PC.