How to read thumb drive volume label
Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
BBuchbinder@niaid.nih.gov
Wed Mar 16 01:46:00 GMT 2011
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
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