On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 08:57:52PM -0400, John wrote: > On July 20, 2016 7:19:35 PM EDT, Zenaan Harkness <z...@freedbms.net> wrote: > >On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 09:17:52AM -0700, Spencer wrote: > >> >Microsoft would lose a large part of its market share in the > >> >business and consumer markets > >> > >> I am confident that even after the collapse, businesses running 98 > >and XP > >> will still be paying for support q: > > > >I never understood why folks upgraded from WfWG3.1 - 98 was -never- as > >stable, except when nothing was installed (including drivers). Not to > >mention those ghastly green hills...
Actually, it was WfWG 3.11, to be precise. I only had Windows 3.1, and lusted after the full windows for worgroups edition... > I never understood why anyone would run Windows -at all-. Linux and > *BSD have both been totally usable for 20+ years now... I did not know about Linux back then - I had actually heard about gcc and tried to download it on an old loaner PC running DOS that I had at the time, but I was getting only 1200baud! After 12 hours, reading enough to realise I'd be doing a lot of swapping just to use it, I figured I would wait until after upgrading to one of the new beaut 24/32kbps spangled modems and a better PC. A few years later someone I was working with brought in a slackware full CD set, and I was pleasantly amazed. Memory is not the best so there are probably other events in between.