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Those were the good ole days. You should see it now.

I installed Windows 95 from Floppies before.
I believe it was 12 or 13 floppies.

Windows 3.1 was 6.

Tenpoundbass says

I installed Windows 95 from Floppies before.
I believe it was 12 or 13 floppies.

Windows 3.1 was 6.

Back in the 90s SCO Unix was also available on floppies. I don't remember the exact number but it was over 30.

FuckCCP89 says

Back in the 90s SCO Unix was also available on floppies.

SCHO now there's a Server OS for ya!
That AT&T sure knew how to make a server, computer and a server OS. It's a shame they dismantled their Computer/Server/Development departments, to focus on Lucent, and their PBX division. Especially when they lost the market share anyway to cheap Chinese phone systems shortly there after.

Tenpoundbass says

SCHO now there's a Server OS for ya!

Maybe in the 1980's. By 1990 SunOS was far away the best, and that was based mostly on BSD. By 2000 Linux had all but wiped out all the Unix systems.

The final nail in the coffin of "Unix" was SCO/Caldera's lawsuit alleging that Linux had copied large swaths of code into the Linux kernel. After years of false claims and just outright lies, it turned out that it was SCO that had copied code from Linux into SCOX in order to make a Linux compatibility layer.

Despite attempts to shakedown large corporations, by lying to them, nobody was held accountable.

FuckCCP89 says

Back in the 90s SCO Unix was also available on floppies. I don't remember the exact number but it was over 30.

In 1991, Linux was about 100 floppies. Each disk was a set of capabilities. Linux itself was just a single floppy but you'd hardly want to work with just that.

richwicks says

Maybe in the 1980's. By 1990 SunOS was far away the best, and that was based mostly on BSD. By 2000 Linux had all but wiped out all the Unix systems.

Maybe so, but AT&T quit running in the race period, it wasn't that they were out performed.

What happened to their business class workstations and servers. NCR and NEC were their manufacturers but to their specs. When AT&T quit the computer game, those two companies disappeared.
NCR primarily does POS systems now. At one time they were far superior to Dell, or Lennovo is today, relatively.

Tenpoundbass says

Maybe so, but AT&T quit running in the race period, it wasn't that they were out performed.

No, there was AIX - that was IBM's Unix, but I remember in the mid 1990's, AT&T saw the writing on the wall with Linux. I had a Sun workstation and an AIX box at RCA (AIX was shared resource). It was buggy, non standard, and just hell to use. Linux was already better than both of them.

I don't know who was running IBM in the 1990s, but they sure blew the dog with all their stupid business decisions. They should have embraced Linux, they should have gotten rid of OS/2 long before they did, they should have developed their own hardware and computers, focusing both on x86 AND PowerPC. Back when XBox360 was using their PPC processor for the console, it was a top of the line CPU - I know, I was working for MS at the time. IBM was promising they were going to come out with a PPC workstation, and I couldn't wait to buy it. Finally I could get off my shitty x86 space heater and be able to use a real processor again.

But it wasn't to be.

Well, at least a Raspberry PI is pleasant and nice to work on. In many ways, it seems to be a lot cleaner, and more stable than my x86 desktop.

No, there was AIX - that was IBM's Unix,

Just a couple years earlier, and it could be a VAX mainframe that that you could remote in with terminal software running on a PC or even a Commodore 64.

You f**ks arn't funny at all come back when you have a funny picture, no one gives a crap about the s**t you are hijacking this thread with.

RC2006 says

Instant get-out-of-jail card!

Eric Holder says

RC2006 says

Instant get-out-of-jail card!

Plus a CDC finder's fee!

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PMack says

Why am I not able to post more memes? 🤯😥

@PMack is there something that won't post?

FuckCCP89 says

Michelle finally whipped out her immense thing on display that AF been talking about.

@Patrick:

They may work!

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