Instead of freebsd.com, why not...

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Anthony
> Atkielski
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 3:11 PM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not...
>
>
> Ted Mittelstaedt writes:
>
> > Like Anthony, I do use Windows on the desktop myself.
>
> Well, that says it all, doesn't it?
>

No, the rest of the posting "says it all"

>
> If you had only one computer that could boot only one OS,
> which would it
> be?
>

I have been in that situation before.

Back in 1986 I was the stereotypical starving student
and could not afford to run out and buy new computer hardware.  And
by that time, it was obvious the future was in Intel-based PC hardware,
so none of my older computer gear was worth screwing with, and
worse was that the used market for old computer gear was pretty well
stuffed with non-Intel gear.  People were still in 1986, using IBM XTs
for business work, and if they were Dumpsterizing them, it wasn't
in any of the Dumpsters I ever dived into.  So, buying a cheap older
used computer wasn't really an option then like it is today.

I ended up buying the pieces of a clone IBM XT, brand new, and assembling
a computer.  I was too poor to afford a case for it so the thing sat
with all it's guts on the table.  The monitor was an amber composite
that I had purchased, also new, back sometime in 1982 or 1983, driven
from a CGA card  (some of those older CGA cards had composite output)
No hard drive, this was a dual floppy system.  (initially, I
ended up getting a 10MB drive later on)

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.



Ted