Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:38:16 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not... Message-ID: <212629723.20050215183816@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNOEGMFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <435651952.20050215001107@wanadoo.fr> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNOEGMFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > I initially ran a pirated copy of DOS on it (remember, at that time > MS wasn't selling DOS retail) but shortly after I got it up I switched > over to...drumroll > > Minix. Ah, but anything even remotely similar to UNIX would have been superior to MS-DOS, so that move would make perfect sense. The situation is different today. At times that I've only had one computer, it has always been a MS-DOS (in the olde days) or Windows computer. I was tempted to try OS/2 once, but OS/2 wasn't around long enough for me to change my mind, and it wasn't free. I recall using CP/M very briefly, long ago. I like FreeBSD because it gives me something nice to run as a server. Windows is too expensive and too bloated for server use. My oldest machine does indeed run Windows NT Server 4.0 (as a PDC, no less), but I never actually used it in a server capacity--I was just trying to foresee the unforeseeable. By the time I actually needed a server of my own, I had discovered FreeBSD. -- Anthony
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