Windows 11 [is trash] review
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Old tech is a lot of fun, and if you start working on deeply embedded systems (eg. the microcontroller that controls an electric toothbrush) or extremely cost sensitive embedded systems they tend to use chips that are either very similar to or the same as those old 8/16-bit CPUs. Though that is changing somewhat as the the smaller 32-bit microcontrollers continue to come down in price.
If you don't want to go DOS, throw Windows 95 or 98 on a VM and play with it sometime. Or OS/2 Warp if you want to play with something a bit more exotic. Those OSes pretty much do the same stuff Windows 11 does: run a web browser, run Word.
OS/2 would be interesting. Just because I think that's one of the PC-based operating systems I don't think I've ever even seen in use before.
I'm thinking about trying out some sort of old game console or a C64 or something like that. I never did anything with hardware that had good support for graphics and sound. I'm sure nothing will come of it, but I've always liked just trying things.
I think the only thing that drove me to ever upgrade was the new formatting that allows bigger file sizes and more memory.