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CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

[I wrote]
> > I could give you my entire PC history from MS DOS 2.4 in 1984 via 'Doze
> > 3.0 to NT4, then Mandrake Linux for several years before I saw the
> > light, put away my screwdrivers and switched to macOS 10.3 "Panther".
> > I've stuck with Macs ever since; they just *work*, you know?
> > 
> > I could go on but it would be even boring than the above.
> >
>
> I recall having a Mac running X.1.5 and then x.2 at a time when decent
> browsers for that operating system didn't exist. It was Internet 
> Explorer or some independent browser whose name I can't remember. 
> Eventually, Apple released Safari and made things a little better. I 
> don't believe that even Firefox was around at the time. This was 
> definitely a period when the Mac didn't "just work."
>

I can't speak to that, I began with Macs at OS X 10.3 "Panther". 
I had no difficulties with that at all.  

I suppose you might equate Mac OS X 10.1 and 10.2 with 
Windoze 1 and 2.  I imagine that you will remember what 
early 'Doze was like. . . 

What was early Linux like?

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