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  • Knusper@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    I did actually remember that, but figured, they must have had some way of reinstalling Windows, too.

    I guess, though, they might have had a physical Windows install disk at home. So, yeah, would have had to prepare a Linux Live CD before disaster struck…

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      1 year ago

      CD? Windows 98 first edition was released on floppies. And Linux was not some simple thing. Red hat hadn’t even created yum and Debian hadn’t even created apt.

      The late 90’s was a chore of library visits and 14.4k baud XModem transfer interruptions.