Win98 / Me to leave the building...
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...and don't let the door hit you on the way out[^] cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Windows ME was malformed since birth. Not even the doctors could restore him to normal. I just wish they'd had ended his suffering earlier. regards, Mircea Many people spend their life going to sleep when they’re not sleepy and waking up while they still are.
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Yaay! I'm really not sorry to see those messy os's go into the annals of history, we've come a long way since then and were a long way before then as well. It might just be rosy tinted hind-sight, but I swear that the DOS days and the windows 2000 to present days are golden age and the Windows 98 and ME days were a kind of mini-dark age. Maybe because that was the heyday of my job doing onsite technical support and wrestling those os's into submission, getting weird device drivers to work, configuring all manner of networking clients including Novell Netware etc etc. DOS seemed much easier to deal with, at least as easy as the windows 2000 and newer os's.
John Cardinal wrote:
but I swear that the DOS days and the windows 2000 to present days are golden age
Um, what was so golden about DOS? It sucked just as bad as Win9x. Jeremy Falcon
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That's good news I hated that OS! Haven't seen it for many years. I went from NT to 2000. I never even touched that little piece of sh$t! I never understood why MS created ME. What was the reason? Al My eMail control My Blog
Albert Pascual wrote:
never understood why MS created ME. What was the reason?
Um, money? :-) Alvaro
The bible was written when people were even more stupid than they are today. Can you imagine that? - David Cross
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That's good news I hated that OS! Haven't seen it for many years. I went from NT to 2000. I never even touched that little piece of sh$t! I never understood why MS created ME. What was the reason? Al My eMail control My Blog
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John Cardinal wrote:
but I swear that the DOS days and the windows 2000 to present days are golden age
Um, what was so golden about DOS? It sucked just as bad as Win9x. Jeremy Falcon
DOS was fun from a programmer's perspective. You could easily toss the entire operating system out the window! :) That's kind of hard nowadays. :sigh:
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...and don't let the door hit you on the way out[^] cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
ME was horrible travesty, but Windows 98 was a wildly successful operating system that worked remarkably well when configured correctly (i.e. when using well known, well supported hardware.) Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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...and don't let the door hit you on the way out[^] cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Now if only every 9x machine in existence would spontaneously slip into a wormhole so I could stop supporting them.... :sigh:
--Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! Ericahist | NEW!! PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ
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Now if only every 9x machine in existence would spontaneously slip into a wormhole so I could stop supporting them.... :sigh:
--Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! Ericahist | NEW!! PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ
Indeed!! I'm also affraid that even after 20 years from now, 9x customers will be a nightmare for me!!!
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John Cardinal wrote:
but I swear that the DOS days and the windows 2000 to present days are golden age
Um, what was so golden about DOS? It sucked just as bad as Win9x. Jeremy Falcon
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Yaay! I'm really not sorry to see those messy os's go into the annals of history, we've come a long way since then and were a long way before then as well. It might just be rosy tinted hind-sight, but I swear that the DOS days and the windows 2000 to present days are golden age and the Windows 98 and ME days were a kind of mini-dark age. Maybe because that was the heyday of my job doing onsite technical support and wrestling those os's into submission, getting weird device drivers to work, configuring all manner of networking clients including Novell Netware etc etc. DOS seemed much easier to deal with, at least as easy as the windows 2000 and newer os's.
John Cardinal wrote:
DOS seemed much easier to deal with...
Agreed.
"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain
"There is no death, only a change of worlds." - Native American Proverb
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Now if only every 9x machine in existence would spontaneously slip into a wormhole so I could stop supporting them.... :sigh:
--Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! Ericahist | NEW!! PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ
I know I'm probably in the minority. But, I don't want my Win 9x machines to slip into a worm hole. Fortunately, Mike, I support myself, so it's not your problem. BTW, there is one BIG advantage to Win 9x or even Win2000 over Win XP and beyond. You can change your machine configuration or transfer the OS to another computer without running into the Microsoft License Police. (a.k.a. Windows Activation) I'm not talking about piracy here, but that with the older OSes you can upgrade your hardware without having to buy a new Windows license. Of course, to keep it legal, you need to nuke the OS on the old machine. I still am not running XP on any of my home machines and have no plans to anytime soon unless circumstances "force" me to. For example, I need to run some software that won't run on Win2000 or lower. I do know that day is coming. Maybe it's just time to move to Linux or Mac OS X because I would prefer to never buy another Micro$oft operating system.
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DOS was fun from a programmer's perspective. You could easily toss the entire operating system out the window! :) That's kind of hard nowadays. :sigh:
Yeah, DOS was fun. You could totally short-circuit anything in it if you wanted. A colleague of mine once called DOS 'a non-reentrant, single-tasking interrupt handler' :-)
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Yeah, DOS was fun. You could totally short-circuit anything in it if you wanted. A colleague of mine once called DOS 'a non-reentrant, single-tasking interrupt handler' :-)
gpsmobiler wrote:
A colleague of mine once called DOS 'a non-reentrant, single-tasking interrupt handler'
That is not very far from the truth! :)