2009/4/27 Paul Johnson <[email protected]>: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> Maybe you forgot how great of an OS Win98 was at the time. > > It wasn't. It was still a 32-bit multitasking hack sitting on top of > what amounted to a 16-bit version of an 8-bit single-tasking operating > system with no cohesive security controls.
...based on a 4 bit architecture from a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition! > It was obsolete when it was > still in development, even compared to what Debian had going on. I > remember it well, because Win9x is what drove me to Debian to begin with. > I wouldn't say obsolete, at least not for the desktop. But I was unfamiliar with Linux at the time, my first Linux box was Red Hat 7.[1,2] with KDE 2 in late 2001. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
