• CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    That‘s interesting because I remember our home computer ran on it for a while. I guess that was only because my father was friends with a PC shop owner who knew about it.

    • loutr@sh.itjust.works
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      4 hours ago

      Most geeks were running 2000. Windows was easy to pirate at the time, you just needed a valid key, no online checks or anything.

    • Crashumbc@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      A LOT of people ran 2000 on home computers. It was the half step before XP.

      Pretty much anyone not buying a prebuilt ran 2000

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      1 day ago

      ME was basically 98 but much less stable, so a lot of people grabbed a copy of 2000 one way or another to run it at home. XP came out in 2001, bringing an end to DOS based kernels in the Microsoft lineup.