On Wednesday 25 Dec 2002 12:05 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 10:39, Erik Farnsworth wrote: > > And anyone remembering Windows 3.0, should also remember GPFs. They > > were the main feature of the new desktop BG ripped off from Apple's > > Macintosh. Too bad his developers didn't write the code for Windows 3.0 > > as well as they did the code for the Mac desktop. Also, anyone who > > remembers Windows 3.0 probably won't use 'intuitive' in a sentence > > describing it, either....ROFLWTIME.... > > Windows 3.0 ran really great under OS/2 and under Desqview/X - but you > couldn't run a BBS with it - so it went in the trash. OS/2 was great - > cuz if the progman.exe died, it was just a program to kill - same with > any Windows program that ran separately from Windows via the > Presentation Manager. AND, the card games were at least > nicer...(Seahaven)...Desqview/X was cute cuz you could run the 16 MS-DOS > term sessions for the BBS whilst doing other DOS related things...(like > playing door-games locally or chatting w/ those online).
I remember my friendly vendor telling me that he was greatly impressed by OS/2, much better than windows, but that with IBM marketing OS/2 and MS marketing windows it didn't stand a chance. Lessons to be learned here! > > > Most of the time, I just booted into DOS and let Windows 3.0 sit idle. > > That way I could honestly say I didn't have any problems with it....<big > > grin> I stuck with dos until I was forced into 3.1 Anne
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