>ITT: shit that no one knows the meaning of
>>52068163
this thread
>hard drive usage
>optical drive usage
>memory/cpu usage
i'm guessing here
>>52068203
BUT WHAT DOES LOW MEAN
>>52068180
/thread
>>52068163
proprietary
>>52068163
nostalgiaed.
I had a lot of fun creating and deleting folders when I was a kid.
>>52068212
>Linux Owns Windows
>>52068163
Files to folder
Finished from disk
storage space
>>52068212
I laughed way too hard at that.
>>52068163
I didn't know the meaning back then. Old installers were really shitty.
>>52068333
norton commander
dayum, that shit is old
prince megahit, it was a command to start prince of persia with cheats enabled
>>52069164
norton commander may be old, but the interface survived:
midnight commander for linux
for windows, if you want the command line version, you can use far manager (farmanagerDOTcom)
>>52068435
Yes, them installations.
Dat nostalgia man
>>52068163
Left: current file percentage
Middle: all files percentage
Right: HDD space, usually shows a wrong value on modern computers. If there is almost no space left, there is a stop sign at the bottom
turbo
>>52069164
still use FARmanager
>>52069820
turbo
>>52069820
it turns turbo on
>>52069820
aww man old world shit.
It overclocks the processor when doing heavy data processing
>>52069820
Holy shit I my 486 is in that fucking case.
>>52069913
>>52069911
>The name itself is an intentional misnomer, as the button does not boost the speed; engaging it slows the system down to a state compatible with original 8088 chips.
>>52069820
it actually SLOWS the CPU down to enable compatibility with programs made to run on the original IBM PC to avoid having in example games running like a VHS in fast forward.
Life & why we all shouldn't end it
Turbo button was official overclocking back in the early 90's. Pushing it makes a 8086 4 Mhz work at 8 Mhz. Some old MSDOS programs were just unusable at turbo speed.
>>52069970
It kind of requires some thought gymnastics to realize that it means "in case of turbo speed, press this button", they really could have called it anything else.
it's like how photographers call photography of small things macro, even though the subject matter is micro-sized, in this case it's referencing the enlargement ratio and not subject size.
>>52070096
>official overclocking
lolno. It always made the CPU slower or disabled the cache. It never was an overclock as the CPU was advertised at ti's turbo speed
>>52068163
>file transfer status
>total installation status
>disk usage
what do I win? I get to see that all the time when I'm installing shit on my NT4 box
>>52070096
It did the opposite; adding a shit ton of wait states or disabling the cache or whatever to make the system run at XT-tier speeds for old software that runs too fast on anything newer than a 4.7 MHz 8088
>>52070154
>>52070481
well, thanks for the info. I never pushed the button anyway as games as Monkey Island dint' work well at 4 Mhz.
>>52068212
Buffer desu
>>52070606
I never used it either, it's a relic from an era where you paid a shit ton for software and intended to use the same version for 10+ years
>>52068212
Thats disk space
Never really understood what the Winamp mp3 demo file said.
>>52071492
...It really whips the llama's ass
>>52071557
now that makes sense.
>gives you an error code
>still calls it an unknown error
>MS has descriptions for all this shit online
I will never understand why they don't include some files that documents all this shit.
>>52072494
>>>52070606
motherfucking this
>>52069005
They didn't work.. or they didn't have cool animations and ads about upcoming releases?
>>52072494
>all documentation of error codes is done by end users on forums
Just give us a txt file or something, even if it's buried 25 folders deep in one of those mystery Windows subfolders. As long as it's there.
>>52073887
Windows already has an integrated help application so it wouldn't be too much to ask to just add a list of error codes and at least a brief explanation with a link to a technical explanation.
It would amount to no work compared to making an OS, its just some extra text.
How to piss off every 90s nostalgia shit pretending to be 45 as if being older is better
>Your bank account was hacked and you just lost $100,000
ehhhhhhh
>What's that little black box? Use a download or upload arrow instead.
Breathe in, breathe in, breath in.... RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FULL AUTISM MODE ENGAGE AS I JUST SHIT MY PANTS AND WE AREN'T EVEN HAVING A CONVERSATION RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>52075812
>generation cancer trying to insult in reddit speak
luckily i cant decipher a damn thing youre saying
>>52075812
did you forget to take your medicine again, grandpa?
>>52068163
>actual progress
>progess of reading next file to copy
>ram usage
i think that's kinda it?
>>52079064
current file
total progress
disk space remaining
i'm p sure
How do you call these
>>52068163
It's that shitty thing that was in the corner of full screen blue installer windows that
>>52079422
Minimize, Maximize, Close (for windows)
>>52068163
Sadly, I feel the need to explain this since I lightly scanned the thread and didn't see. CD Burners (especially early ones) had troubles writing accurately. So programs would do weird things to adjust settings. One of them was to attempt to slow down the rotational speed of the CD in hopes the system could recover. This rarely worked and 90% of people who lost a disk just ended up burning at the slowest speed possible.
So I think I remember this one:
>Progress
>CD-Rotation Speed
>Writable material in memory - If it dropped to zero then nothing to write and the disk is ruined. Of course if the disk is done then it is suppose to drop. So every 5 disks you forget how this works and panic for that half second when you see the 3rd bar dropping even though it is a success condition at the end.
The current total install progress was already shown as a progress bar in the center of the screen, so the second column is not exactly total progress but total progress *from the currently inserted disk*. Back then switching diskettes or CDs was common, so this bar was useful to know when you should have the next diskette/CD ready.
>>52079422
Windows: police lightbar
OS X: traffic lights
>>52068163
Probably installing deer hunter or quake
>>52070815
Are you retarded?
>>52079798
Anon that pic really is from that old Windows installer. It has nothing to do with burning CDs.
It even looked like that when installing stuff from floppies.
>>52068163
>>52069820
>tfw used to have a sleeper with a real turbo button (as in press button, CPU overclocks)
I kind of want to build another
>>52079422
JUST
>>52069164
>prince megahit
holy shit, got nostalgia chills down my spine
>>52069820
I bet you all think turbo makes things faster.
>>52082027
it does outside nerdworld
>>52068163
iirc it's;
a. transfer progress for the current file
b. transfer progress for the current media (makes more sense when installing from sets of floppies/cd's, instead of a single one)
c. remaining target disk space
>>52069820
Doesn't turbo let you scale down your processor speed to run older programs that used the CPU clock cycle speed for timing?
I remember when I was like six we had one of these, an LCD display on the front would toggle between 120 and 60 when you hit the button and the computer would get less responsive
>>52079422
People call them "window controls", though it can have a different meaning in Windows GUI programming
>>52069820
TURBO
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>>52075812
I know what you mean but shitposting wont get us anywhere
>>52079455
This
>>52080105
Floppies is a good hint as one of the bars showed the progress of the current disk, which is kinda useless when everything comes on one CD
gravity
>>52086649
Left takes screenshot
Middle keeps your scroll wheel from doing anything
Right I have no fokin idea. I'd like to assume it pauses video/music files.
>>52088771
you're wrong on all counts
>>52088791
eat it nerd
>>52088844
that's what it does now but not what it's originally for
>>52068163
>current file copy progress
>global copy progress
>overall copy speed
what was so hard about that? it was a common installer interface a decade ago
>>52088868
your mum wasn't originally for sucking dick either but that's what she does now
>>52088881
>>52088868
fucking BTFO
>>52088881
>>52088891
grow up
>>52088920
no u
>>52086649
In UNIX/Linux systems, SysRq is really cool, it can send requests directly to the kernel.
>>52082156
Yes
>>52082894
I remember people calling PCs shit because they required you to tweak autoexec.bat on a per-game basis while Consoles just had you swap carts and play, but back then a PC started up in 2 seconds from power on to command prompt. Less than a second if you turned off memory testing. No modern PC comes as close.
>>52088771
>Middle keeps your scroll wheel from doing anything
Scroll Lock made you scroll the screen instead of moving the cursor if enabled, but I think it was application dependant. It's like when you press ctrl+up/down in Notepad++.
Excel still uses scroll lock for sure, not sure what else does.
Pause... actually paused a lot of applications.
>>52079422
Excuse my autism but it would be
"What do you call these" not 'how'.
This is a pretty common mistake for people speaking English as a second language.
>>52089612
Are you an Arch user?
>>52089643
If I used Linux I probably would be
>>52068163
left to right
1) overall progress
2) current file progress
3) remaining free disk space
