Genuine question I keep coming back to: if your favourite old OS had never been discontinued and just kept getting developed normally by their OG devs with proper modern hardware support, security patches and so on, which one would you actually want to daily drive today?

For me it's a tossup between Windows XP and Windows 7. I used both of them a lot when I was younger and honestly they felt basically the same to me at the time, but Windows 7 always seemed a bit easier to navigate.

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Ik heb een Computer Bijbel gevonden op de vrij plank in mijn buurt.

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🙄 @lobsters removed my submission of Killed by Apple as being off-topic even though I checked beforehand and it permitted Killed by Google 6 years ago. Both are interesting computer history.

https://killedbyapple.theden.sh/?ref=activitypub

https://lobste.rs/s/8yumgi/killed_by_google

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This 1974 cartoon of the ILLIAC IV would seem very at home today.

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https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/supercomputers/10/160/279?position=0

Brilliant!

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Tim Paterson's DOS listings, containing source code of 86-DOS 1.00 kernel, various PC-DOS 1.00 pre-release kernels and utilities, and the Microsoft BASIC-86 Compiler runtime library.
https://github.com/DOS-History/Paterson-Listings

Stebe Jobs (October 1983): If you read the Apple's first brochure, the headline was “Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication.”

https://mprove.de/chrono?ll=-0.5636,-0.40512&q=-0.49633,-0.70786&z=9.67&m=IFbyte-magazine-1984-02-61&s=1&iiif-content=https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/byte-magazine-1984-02/manifest.json

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Hey Babe!

The new episode from @retrobytes is out! 😀

https://youtu.be/mbsQCnDHkZo

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