From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" <BBuchbinder@niaid.nih.gov>
To: "cygwin-talk@cygwin.com" <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Cc: 'carolus' <worwor@bellsouth.net>
Subject: RE: How to read thumb drive volume label
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 01:46:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A209DAA100A6@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ilmo2h$bg9$1@dough.gmane.org>
carolus sent the following at Monday, March 14, 2011 11:57 PM
>On 3/14/2011 4:55 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
>> (Personally, I think that running DESQview386 under DOS 3.3 was better
>> than any version of Windows, just as some people on this list wax
>> nostalgic for B20 and version 1.5.) :-)
>
>I never thought much of DESQview or of Windows either. At that time I
>used to telnet from DOS 3.3 to a Unix box, and was happier in Unix. It
>took less than a day to switch to Cygwin, with hardly any difference
>from the real Unix. Before that I was using the MKS Toolkit on my DOS
>or Windows desktop, which was nice software, but not as complete an
>emulation as Cygwin.
You may have misunderstand. I *liked* DESQview.
At the time, I also liked the MKS Toolkit. Of course, that was years
before cygwin existed.
- Barry
Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.
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