In the computer science, may terms are confusing and the use of the name DOS is one of them.
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Although IBM originally used the acronym DOS in the early 1970’s for their disk operating system for the 360 series computers, the 1970’s version of DOS (later replaced by VSE) is not the same as what we commonly know as DOS. DOS is a command line interface operating system for IBM Personal Computer systems and clones. Thank you for your project.DOS stands for Disk Operating System. So for nostalgic purposes, I’m sad to see this end, but in all reality Calmira’s market has all but disappeared and there isn’t much that can be added, development wise. Of course, as vendors stopped supporting 16 bit Windows, people migrated to Linux, and I made the transition to KDE 1.x back in 1998. For a lot of people, this was their first experience with an open source project on Windows. Calmira was only one of several programs designed for this niche market, for people who didn’t have the money to shell out for a whopping Pentium 166. Of course, you needed a third party dialer for internet service, but most ISPs included one on CD (I used the one that came with Mindspring).
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At the time, third party software support was still as good as with Windows 95–Eudora mail, Forte Agent, Netscape Navigator, and Paint Shop Pro were almost standard on everyone’s computer.
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There were plenty of programs still available for Windows at the time that enhanced the interface, such as Calypso, WIN32s, patchdrv.zip which allowed one to skin the title bar (I remember there was a port of the Plastic theme from IceWM which eventually sparked my interest in Linux). This setup also gave me a pure DOS environment when I needed it for games, unlike Win 95. So I installed MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (not to be confused with Windows 3.11), it was so much quicker to boot. Windows 95 was nice, but after OSR2 it just seemed too slow with my 8 MB of RAM (I later spent $80 on a 32MB SIMM to get a whopping 40 megs). I remember using Calypso on my 486 back in the late 90’s. Of course that kind of thing is only skin deep and couldn’t solve the real problems with the OS.
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I remember some other Windows 3 GUI enhancements, for example a NeXTSTEP style Dock and Window theme, the equivalent of running an Aqua theme on Windows XP I suppose. I might end up the same way with Windows 2K/XP, as I’m not planning on upgrading to Vista any time soon.
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Still, it’s interesting to see how people have managed to update Windows 3, and keep on using it for so many years after it was replaced. Despite its high system requirements and the lack of any real innovation, Windows 95 was one of the few Windows releases that I considered essential. Obviously it was a big improvement over Windows 1&2, but just about anything would look good compared with them.Compared with the RISC OS desktop I was using at home, with its drag and drop, iconbar and elegant window management, it seemed like something out of the stone age.
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Quite a few of the people I worked with prefered using DOS apps like old versions of Wordperfect, rather than having to deal with Windows 3. The GUI was an unintuitive mess that just wasn’t designed for multitasking apps, while the system crashed even more than the worst versions of System 7 that I tried on my Powerbook.
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I’m a retro computer/OS geek, but that’s one of the few old systems that I have no warm feelings of nostalgia about whatsoever.
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At the time I remember hating the fact that I had to use it in work. It’s funny to see people looking back fondly at Windows 3.