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I do.
Though, those socket A boards kinda suck even after a recap. 98 runs great when it boots!
Gotta power cycle the PSU to get it to boot the first time. Tried 3 PSUs before the recap and nothing changed.
That reminds me I want to try Windows 3 in a virtual machine just for fun. See how fast it boots
It always booted fast enough (well as fast as computers were then). It was pretty fucking useless though. Dos was still way more useful and efficient in those days.
True. Mom had a computer with Win 3.11 on it. I played on that thing for hours when I was younger. I played an unauthorized dos Star Trek game a lot.
I played the lights off that 25th anniversary edition one. Even more so when someone got the walkthrough for me off the ol local BBS
Office like applications and fonts disagree. DOS was annoying, Windows was pretty.
You just had to run the dos program of the office like tool you wanted and you had same GUI apps. Just was one app at a time, as it wasn't a Windowed environment.
Office wasn't in use as much back then, that was still Lotus and WordPerfect territory. DOS was ok if you knew how to really use it, and it took some learning. I've always been a simplicity over fancy UI kind of guy though, so maybe it was just me.