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killerstorm 4 hours ago

My father got me a second-hand computer with Am386DX-40 somewhere around 1997, IIRC. An upgrade to older 286.

It was two generations old at that time but still a lot of fun: it could run a lot of games (incl. DOOM, of course), programming (largely Turbo Pascal 7), and some word processing under Windows 3.11.

I didn't bother with Win95, though.

I've been using it up until 1999, when I finally got a then-modern computer with Windows 98. But in some ways MS-DOS felt more capable - I really knew what each file is for, what computer is doing, etc. I.e. the entire machine is fully comprehensible. You really don't get it with Windows unless you're Russinovich or something.

So in a way 386 was a peak computer for me