And remember how late they were to network support? I had a computer store at that time and sold a lot of Artisoft LANtastic kits because Win3.1 did not have network support. I believe it was slipstreamed in 3.11.
Most of my installations were so several machines in an office could share a common printer. Dave > -----Original Message----- > From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com > [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Chris Albertson > Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2012 08:50 > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] For my whole life timezones have been weird > > On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Sarah White > <kuze...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > So, at or around 1981 (the year I was born) there was a > cool concept. > > IBM was selling "personal computers" (IBM-PC compatible > later became a > > thing) and by the time I was old enough to operate a modem, > I had one > > myself. Life was good. > > > > Wonder if there is any sensible way to petition microsoft > to fix this > > stupid mistake dating back to the DOS era. Windows 8 / > metro is out now, > > and I can't bloody stand the changes. > > > I always wonder why people continue to use MS Windows. Perhaps thheir > employers force them to. But other than that why? > > I went to a meetig once where Bill Gate talked about the > "new" OS called > "MS-DOS" At that time I already had a reasonable education > in computer > science and was working the systems software for multi-user > systems and > networking. What absolutly amazzed me was the Gates said > his plan was to > make DOS more and more "nix-like" over the years. Then he > went on to say > what thatment and it was clear he did NOT know the difference > between an > operating system and a shell. He absolutely didn't. > > That is the root cause of all Window's problems. The company > was run be a > "chief software architect" who technically very ignorant and > lacked any > formal education in the subject. Windows still suffers > because it tries to > maintain backwards compatabilty > > You have to remember that in 1980 we have computers that > would allow 100 > people to simultainiously log in and do work from 100 > different termmiansl. > We have the Internet (called arpanet back then. We had > email and UNIX was > alive and well. We even had mice and track balls This was > not the "dark > ages" the only real difference was the price of hardware. > And in this age > gates did NOT know the difference between an OS and a command > shell and he > was running Microsoft. > > > Chris Albertson > Redondo Beach, California > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.