>>>>http://www.reghardware.com/2011/07/27/ms_dos_turns_30/
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>>>>I guess none of us would be here but for that baby :-}
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>>>Happy days. You knew what every file on your computer was and what it did.
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>>The problem was it didn't do a lot ......
>
>The upside is that it didn't do a lot behind your back.

Also let's not forget those early days when the OS wouldn't stand in our way (of course, back then the OS couldn't do much anyway, so we often had to write the low-level code to do things because we couldn't accompish it by a system call).

And how about the days where cold-boot of the computer often only took less than a minute? (of course, we have to ignore the original IBM-PC which sat there not doing much for a minute or two after you flipped the ON switch)

And those early days when we *didn't* have to worry much about viruses? (and before Win95, computer viruses were things that only Macintosh users had to worry about)