Where is OS/2 Warp when you need it? Dan, who is surrounded by IBM cabinets full of AIX machines
Sent from my iPhone On Feb 1, 2012, at 11:22 AM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Win 3.1 was an abomination, no doubt. > > Win95/98 is really not that bad when compared to Mac OS 8 which is the > contemporary. IIRC OS 8 caused a lawsuit of some sort and was more or less > unusable until 8.5 or so. I don't remember the details now. > > Windows 2000 was the breakout release, a consumer OS (NT was really > nerd/server only) with protected memory space so applications could crash > without bringing the OS down. The Apple platform didn't get that until OS 10 > several YEARS later. > > Apple is a strange company, sometimes leaping ahead (shifting the later G5 to > PCIe slots from PCI-X for example) sometimes lagging way behind (slow to > protected memory space, slow to add 64bit PCI-X, etc) recently it seems like > the game is to get out ahead and stay there which seems like a winner. > > -Curt > > > > Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:17:05 -0500 > From: Allan Streib <str...@cs.indiana.edu> > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Bought a new computer monitor > Message-ID: > <1328109425.1479.140661030794...@webmail.messagingengine.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012, at 09:14 PM, roger...@comcast.net wrote: >> So, you aren't alone. It just seems that Windows users don't have all >> of the problems and "situations" that Apple/Mac users do. Now that >> I've consoled Rick, you Mac guys can bring out your.......... > > Windows is forever tarnished by the pre-NT versions (3.1, 95/97/ME). > Sort of like how GM tarnished the idea of a diesel car here. Windows, > since NT/2000, has been decently reliable and stable. > > Allan > -- > 1983 300D > 1979 300SD > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
