Articles like this are basically catnip for me. I knew about a lot of use cases (ATMs, etc), but wasn't aware of the use in old art and some of the other stuff they mention. Lots of fun (and I say this as someone who has hated Windows his entire life in every iteration).
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @j7hB75 6h
I booted up an old Dell Latitude laptop from 2005 and it ran just fine on XP. Was actually quick and responsive.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 8h
It was a much simpler time when operating systems weren't thin clients for the internet.
I wonder how much lost productivity Microsoft's forced-upgrade business model has caused for business too. They could have stopped at NT5.x and the world would have been better for it.
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