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by wharris2

7/9/02 11:17:56 AM

Win95 comments

Win95 worked fine for me out of the box, as soon as I did a fresh install and didn't try to "upgrade" from Win 3.1.

It ran the DOS games I wanted to run (at the time it was probably Doom 2, Heretic, XCom), and the Windows programs I used (Quicken, Ami Pro), although for the simple letters I was writing at the time I decided that Wordpad was fine.

Now, the 4 or so years between 3.1 and the actual release of Win95 - the features that were going to be in it (which didn't find their way into the final release), the hype, the press frenzy - I'm sure that's very reminiscent of the typical IBM monopolistic practises - sure, that was bad. But it *did* work.

Famous last RPG quotes: "I'll just shoot this fireball down the dungeon passageway..."

Outraged observer from afar - (dmarker2) - (41) - July 9, 2002, 10:54:43 AM EDT

Win95 comments - (wharris2) - July 9, 2002, 11:17:56 AM EDT

Hmmm.. - (bepatient) - July 9, 2002, 11:23:08 AM EDT

Everyone else is doing it, so it's not so bad? - (marlowe) - July 9, 2002, 12:08:49 PM EDT

Re: Outraged observer from afar - (kmself) - July 9, 2002, 12:58:19 PM EDT

Death from a thousand cuts - (drewk) - July 9, 2002, 01:53:54 PM EDT

Simple and straight forward - (Andrew Grygus) - (10) - July 9, 2002, 04:22:42 PM EDT

Re: Simple and straight forward - (dmarker2) - (9) - July 10, 2002, 02:19:33 AM EDT

Perception vs. reality - (drewk) - July 10, 2002, 09:16:42 AM EDT

Retiree funds . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (3) - July 10, 2002, 09:25:01 AM EDT

Strong disagreement on your leading point - (ben_tilly) - (2) - July 10, 2002, 07:14:51 PM EDT

Balanced depending on age - (wharris2) - (1) - July 14, 2002, 06:56:39 AM EDT

Exactly right - (ben_tilly) - July 14, 2002, 11:55:32 AM EDT

Maybe, maybe not - (wharris2) - (3) - July 10, 2002, 02:19:49 PM EDT

Book Roasting - (Andrew Grygus) - July 10, 2002, 03:18:45 PM EDT

Re: Interesting - that point discussed on Aust TV last night - (dmarker2) - (1) - July 14, 2002, 06:54:42 PM EDT

Of course the system is flawed. - (static) - July 14, 2002, 11:08:34 PM EDT

M$ has been the *Model* for the growth in rapacity. - (Ashton) - (2) - July 9, 2002, 06:36:05 PM EDT

Speaking of Ed Curry - (ben_tilly) - (1) - July 9, 2002, 07:57:13 PM EDT

Speaking of Ed Curry...again - (folkert) - July 9, 2002, 11:06:53 PM EDT

I will take some flame. - (mmoffitt) - (21) - July 17, 2002, 08:07:52 PM EDT

Oh yea? - (boxley) - (4) - July 18, 2002, 11:56:32 AM EDT

Yeah. - (mmoffitt) - (3) - July 19, 2002, 04:43:44 PM EDT

same way anyone else does X:Y co-ordinates -NT - (boxley) - (2) - July 19, 2002, 06:50:40 PM EDT

80x25 char based? :-) - (mmoffitt) - (1) - July 22, 2002, 08:45:05 PM EDT

1024X768 :) - (boxley) - July 23, 2002, 01:34:38 PM EDT

Hello, Toast. - (CRConrad) - (15) - July 18, 2002, 03:24:27 PM EDT

Amen, brother... - (jb4) - (6) - July 19, 2002, 09:57:37 AM EDT

"Kylix". Here's a linky-thingy: - (CRConrad) - (5) - July 19, 2002, 03:08:24 PM EDT

Hey all, retry that link - Kylix 3 is out! (OP *and* C++!) - (CRConrad) - (4) - July 24, 2002, 02:02:43 AM EDT

I'll pass for now - (orion) - (2) - July 24, 2002, 06:13:55 AM EDT

Double hmmmm - (orion) - (1) - July 24, 2002, 06:24:10 AM EDT

Dunno, but at a guess, the same thing as with v. 2: - (CRConrad) - July 24, 2002, 09:28:07 AM EDT

Hoo--fscking--RAAAAYY!!!! - (jb4) - July 24, 2002, 12:05:18 PM EDT

I bought Kylix. - (mmoffitt) - (2) - July 19, 2002, 04:50:32 PM EDT

"De gustibus non est disputandum" - (CRConrad) - (1) - July 19, 2002, 06:57:50 PM EDT

Thanks for the links. - (mmoffitt) - July 22, 2002, 08:39:12 PM EDT

Re: Hello, Toast. - (jake123) - (4) - July 25, 2002, 12:42:43 PM EDT

Yeah, maybe... But does rexx have a zero-effort GUI builder? -NT - (CRConrad) - (3) - July 26, 2002, 02:07:27 AM EDT

It used to, anyway - (imric) - (2) - July 26, 2002, 08:30:44 AM EDT

GpfRexx too. Rather unfortunate name, that. :-) -NT - (Another Scott) - (1) - July 26, 2002, 12:00:04 PM EDT

Efforts are underfoot to get Sybase to open source vx-rexx - (jake123) - July 30, 2002, 10:38:20 PM EDT

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