A bit of PC history
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-24/windows-95-two-decades-on/6719818[^]
Peter Wasser "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
Win 95 was dreadful. I skipped it.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-24/windows-95-two-decades-on/6719818[^]
Peter Wasser "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
Aside, 2015 also marks twenty years since some of us started programming in Java.
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Aside, 2015 also marks twenty years since some of us started programming in Java.
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There are some black days in the history as well. :laugh: :laugh:
Ravi Khoda Humanity is the best religion and smile is the best medicine.
Not some, but many :-)
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Win 95 was dreadful. I skipped it.
Windows 95 OSR/2 was pretty good though, I totally loved it and I still sigh when I see it on some ancient workstation.
Geek code v 3.12 { GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X } If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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Windows 95 OSR/2 was pretty good though, I totally loved it and I still sigh when I see it on some ancient workstation.
Geek code v 3.12 { GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X } If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
I was at a self-serve checkout at the supermarket[^] the other week. It was near closing time and one of the terminals was having a fit. In the middle of scanning my stuff and sharing smirks with a mate, we noticed that it had what appeared to be Windows98 running on the terminal. :wtf:
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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I was at a self-serve checkout at the supermarket[^] the other week. It was near closing time and one of the terminals was having a fit. In the middle of scanning my stuff and sharing smirks with a mate, we noticed that it had what appeared to be Windows98 running on the terminal. :wtf:
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
Not really strange as my company, which sells fully automated quality inspection machine for food products, still has and supports Windows 2000 control units. We still develop the UI in VB6. Don't change what is not broken - we changed to winXP in late 2010 and now we are approaching Win7 with several leading projects due to pressing requests from customer so big you can't say no (think of the food industry and names will come to you. There are VERY little firms out of our reach).
Geek code v 3.12 { GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X } If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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Not really strange as my company, which sells fully automated quality inspection machine for food products, still has and supports Windows 2000 control units. We still develop the UI in VB6. Don't change what is not broken - we changed to winXP in late 2010 and now we are approaching Win7 with several leading projects due to pressing requests from customer so big you can't say no (think of the food industry and names will come to you. There are VERY little firms out of our reach).
Geek code v 3.12 { GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X } If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
No, of course not. If it still did what I wanted, I'd be using DR-Dos 6 along with Superstor, ViewMax and WordPerfect :-\ The joker in me couldn't resist a giggle at the fact the only malfunctioning machine betrayed its aging OS and the cynic in me couldn't help but wonder if the cost of licensing really was entirely irrelevant to the process. While incredibly foolish for an organization of their size, I've seen similar practises in a company that paid many millions of dollars a year to the parent company simply for the right to be associated with the name of said parent - in practise, often amounting to little more than an extra logo on the letter-head. The thing I find interesting about truth and fiction is that fiction must conform to what seems reasonably possible. Truth on the other hand, suffers no such impediment!
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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No, of course not. If it still did what I wanted, I'd be using DR-Dos 6 along with Superstor, ViewMax and WordPerfect :-\ The joker in me couldn't resist a giggle at the fact the only malfunctioning machine betrayed its aging OS and the cynic in me couldn't help but wonder if the cost of licensing really was entirely irrelevant to the process. While incredibly foolish for an organization of their size, I've seen similar practises in a company that paid many millions of dollars a year to the parent company simply for the right to be associated with the name of said parent - in practise, often amounting to little more than an extra logo on the letter-head. The thing I find interesting about truth and fiction is that fiction must conform to what seems reasonably possible. Truth on the other hand, suffers no such impediment!
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
enhzflep wrote:
The thing I find interesting about truth and fiction is that fiction must conform to what seems reasonably possible. Truth on the other hand, suffers no such impediment!
You would be a fine Dungeon Master indeed :D
Geek code v 3.12 { GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X } If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-24/windows-95-two-decades-on/6719818[^]
Peter Wasser "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
"Windows 95 was Microsoft's big push into the world of graphical user interfaces for its operating system. Previous versions of Windows required users to provide input predominantly by using the keyboard, with a mouse click only here and there. Windows 95 introduced Microsoft users to a world where everything was point and click"' with the mouse was used as much as possible and the keyboard only used where necessary." The author seems to be blissfully unaware of Win 3.X and WinNT. :| /ravi
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