FreeBSD is well situated

[Espionage724]

CShell Yeah is spelled y-e-a-h

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uW47jWLMiY

 

[zester]

Yeah, that might be a problem. Hopefully someone (AMD, RISC-V, Intel if resurrected ) will end NVIDIA close source era.

Considering that Intel and Nvidia are partnering and that Intel announced a while back that they were stepping back from some of their open-source commitments, I don’t think that’s going to happen. Intel and Nvidia are likely collaborating on RISC-V to challenge ARM.

 

[DanielBowman]

LOL -- I used to run defrag all the time ... because I was so annoyed at how darn slow my Windows O/S was getting.

And ya I would stare at the "little boxes" changing color just like that screen shot.

So... I wasn't the (ONLY ONE) doing that !? Glad I am in the "echo chamber"

Hypnotizing defrag was a MUST. If it failed and screwed up your 20 MB of data hard drive there was no full backup option - the few floppy disks you had were reserved for sharing games.
Also remember the intricate multi-option config.sys and autoexec.bat to either highsys and freemem(ory) for Doom2 or load a bunch of bloat (cca 300kB). DosNavigator and unRAR was a savior...not to diss Volkov Commander but DosNavigator had pretty neat Tetris inside too.
Even then the previous generation was complaining about how neatly cataloged punch cards were the true way to properly manage your machine.

 

[CShell]

Also remember the intricate multi-option config.sys and autoexec.bat to either highsys and freemem(ory) for Doom2 or load a bunch of bloat (cca 300kB). DosNavigator and unRAR was a savior...not to diss Volkov Commander but DosNavigator had pretty neat Tetris inside too.

Ya - this is very true ! I still remember using (link) DESQView back on DOS to "rationalize" that it was just like UNIX !
! Part of me wanted that be true back in the day - but it was always a disappointment (but that was NOT the fault of QuarterDeck Software - they get a big "E" for effort on that). It was an early attempt to get people interested in using a "task switchable" DOS.