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Reply to: Windows 95 launched 25 years ago today.
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Previously on "Windows 95 launched 25 years ago today."
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Was it really that long ago?
That was launched with quite a fanfare - wasn't the Guardian free that day courtesy of dead eye Bill?
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True UK Techies did OS1.2 -> CPN -> Arthur -> RiscOS
If you wanted to run any of the inferior OS's you could on RiscOS.
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- Originally posted by quackhandle View PostI always thought MS Win OS's went on a theme:
Originally posted by quackhandle View Post
3.11 Okay
95 pants
98 SE Decent
ME Crap
XP Okay
Vista awful
7 Goodish
8 Pants again
8.1 Slightly less pants Start screen is back!
10 Decent as long as you don't run updates until you have updated all the drivers and your laptop charger is plugged in.
qh
1-3.0 stayed up as long as NLyUK's pants.
3.1 yes it lasts a day mostly.
3.11 (Windows for Crashgroups) ok for a day or two if you don't push it or have odd drivers.
95 - ME (Windows Multiple exceptions) = 3.11 ++
2000 - yes that lasts a week before reboot for an ordinary user. Corporations loved it.
XP fast more secure and lasted a week or two between reboots. Ditto
Vista - skip.
7 - what vista should have been.
8 - too early, too far.
8.1 - what 8 should have been.
10 - properly managed normal user reboots once a month for updates.
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Originally posted by quackhandle View PostI always thought MS Win OS's went on a theme:
3.11 Okay
95 pants
98 SE Decent
ME Crap
XP Okay
Vista awful
7 Goodish
8 Pants again
8.1 Slightly less pants Start screen is back!
10 Decent as long as you don't run updates until you have updated all the drivers and your laptop charger is plugged in.
qh
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I always thought MS Win OS's went on a theme:
3.11 Okay
95 pants
98 SE Decent
ME Crap
XP Okay
Vista awful
7 Goodish
8 Pants again
8.1 Slightly less pants Start screen is back!
10 Decent as long as you don't run updates until you have updated all the drivers and your laptop charger is plugged in.
qh
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Originally posted by Paddy View PostYes, if my memory serves me correctly it relied on MVS as the core. There were other interesting snippets such as having to get the letters IBM into the BIOS without infringing patents etc. O' for the good old days.
Intel - little endian
OS/2 - ascii
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Originally posted by jainnode View Postit in turn, was based on MVS.
ported to micros
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