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by DeathArrow 1711 days ago
At the time (2000) BeOS was the only interesting enough operating system that I spent days or weeks to pirate over a slow phone connection because it wasn't available to purchase in my country. Even if I used a download manager, the code was corrupted somehow and installing crashed after I tried to boot from the CD. CRC was wrong. I had to retry a few times. Phone bill was crazy and I had to justify it to my parents. But it was worth it, I enjoyed BeOS more than any other OS at the time. Windows, Linux, SkyOs, AtheOS/Syllable.