![]() ![]() (The reason I went for the Fatality Professional in the first place was because it had an onboard floppy port - just about the only Z77 motherboard which does!)Ĭore i7-2600K on a Z77 Fatality Professional motherboard I've also booted MS-DOS 2.00 from a 5.25" floppy on the same PC. Not quite that good, but I've booted DOS 7.1 on my current PC. Krytus wrote:You know, one of the things I would love to see someone try to do is run DOS on an exceedingly powerful I7 6-core desktop with at least 1-GB of RAM, a new nVidia GeForce GPU, a gigabit ethernet connection running at full speed, with a dvd/cd-dual drive, while the main OS resides on either a SCSI HDD or PCIe SSD. God forbid they go somewhere for the day without having access to the internet. In some ways I believe that technology is making people anti-social because they absolutely have to have technology everywhere they go. ![]() Spending summer days cooped up in the house on Facebook when they could be out socializing and going to the beach. That being said, I think some people (people that I personally know) have let technology overrun their lives. I think some people forget that the world used to run without computers at one time. ![]() Are we going to someday need computers to tell us when bodily functions need to be performed? I am very tech savvy, however, I think the technologization (is that a word?) of society has gotten a little ridiculous. You can do that with any OS from DOS to XP. While many people think old systems are weird or outdated, they all do the job they were designed to do.Īs for me, if all I could with a computer is check my email, create and save spreadsheets and documents, and do some web browsing to keep up with the world events and learn new things, that would quite frankly be alright with me. I have a variety of laptop and desktop systems running everything from DOS to Windows XP. ![]()
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