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DOS 5 Upgrade Video
Every now and then I stumble on something so ridiculous that I have to share it. This is a promotion video to upgrade to DOS 5 obviously made in a different era. Promoting features like mouse support, a graphical shell, and freeing up at LEAST 45k of memory, well, Gimme 5! Did I mention that it's all set to a hip beat? You'll love it. And by "Love" I mean "Stick forks in your eyes".
I *will* make my own site. With Blackjack! And Hookers! In fact. Forget the site.
Can I downgrade to DOS 5 instead? Why, the productivity gains alone would be worth it! And I suspect it's not nearly as bloated as Vista.
GetOuttaMySpace - The Anti-Social Network
Surely those on the Zune marketing team aren't holdovers from the DOS 5 days, right?
Can't watch it at work, but is it any more hallucinogenic than this Windows/386 promo video?
More Twoson than Cupertino
I know it, back in my day we coded by punching holes in little cards! In the snow! And we loved it!
Do you always take your dick off before you offer a rebuttal?
1. I'm sure the little animation of the hammer smashing the computer has actually played out in millions of households since the release of that video. 2. Those girls are probably still asking, "Would you like fries with that?" to this day.
And by "Love" I mean "Stick forks in your eyes".
Oh great, I can still hear it, but now I can't find the close window button. You bastard!
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Seriously... that is how they beat OS2.... IBM... if you couldn't beat that you deserved not to win the OS battle.
After replacing it, I couldn't find her XP disk, so I just installed Ubuntu on it.
Her first response on logging in? "This is crap, it's brown."
Ahh, the memories. The horrible, horrible memories. Excuse me while I crawl under my desk, rock back and forth and weep softly.
Well, it has never been successfully tested.
The big news will be when MS goes after the video poster for pirating its Intellectual Property. DOS 5 sales have plummeted worldwide, and displaying this video is clearly a contributing factor. I'm surprised they haven't triggered GPFs on any Windows box attempting to play it.
Behold, this dreamer cometh. Come now, and let us slay him... and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
And uphills! Both ways, to and from work, too! And we didn't have those fancy things called shoes, today you wouldn't go into a server room without your boots, we went in there barefooted. And did it harm us? When we wanted to know if a computer is on, we had to touch its wire, no fancy flashing lights and all the other goodies you have today! When the modem died, I had to sit there for hours and whistle in 300 baud what was on the screen! Yes, 300 baud, and we were GLAD we had that kinda speed! And no fancy debuggers either, we just watched the code fly by and we knew EXACTLY what it did. Wasn't that hard when your whole code has to fit into less than what you got as cache on your CPU today. Oh, and there was only ONE program running at a time, and you had to wait for yours to run. What do you mean "on my machine"? You didn't have one, there was ONE machine for the company, and it was in the basement. Rather, it WAS the basement! When it was cold, and it was often cold because we couldn't afford heating EITHER, that was just after the war, remember, we had NOTHING (ok, except kickass expensive computers)... where was I? Right, when it was cold, we'd huddle together between the tubes (no, Timmy, not the Tubes of the Senator, that Senator didn't exist... ok, he did, but at least he kept his yap shut back then) to stay warm.
Hey. HEY! Where d'ya think you're going? (muttermutter) Spoiled brat...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Heh. And DriveSpace was the death knell for my 500 MB hard drive when I was poking around in DOSShell...
What is this 478 MB file doing on my F drive? I need to get rid of it. <reboot> Oh crap...
-Rob
Biblical fiscal responsibility
I do not own my mom, but she is still my mom.
Your loss is my gain dude!
Kill me! Now! ahhhh! my eyes!
Yes, they should, but they should also be able to say that the complaining comment was lame. However, I draw the line at complaining about a complaining comment. That's just taking the whole free speach thing too far.
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