-=> Khelair wrote to S/370 <=-   
      
    Kh>     Muuuuch fewer applications.  Video was a bit of a headache, sound   
    Kh> was a pain in the ass.  Networking was a little more difficult, I   
    Kh> think, but this could be incorrect just because I didn't know jack   
    Kh> about TCP/IP   
      
    What Khelair said.   
      
   Limited network card support - I remember tracking down Intel Etherexpress   
   drivers, sneakernetting it to the Linux box and having to recompile the   
   kernel. No dynamic modules back then that I knew of. VESA support was   
   tricky, I remember buying a specific video card because I knew it worked.   
      
   I used TWM back then, as K said, opening a handful of terminals. There   
   weren't many graphical apps. I remember a few early graphical browsers.   
      
   PINE or MUTT were your email friends.   
      
   Oh, and RPM or apt-get. Nope.   
      
   hand-hack a configuration file, then run make;make install and hope it   
   worked.   
      
      
      
      
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