On Monday 29 September 2025 01:21:08 pm Felix Miata wrote: > mick.crane composed on 2025-09-29 18:07 (UTC+0100): > > > I never really knew what this meant but liked the sound of it. > > > > "32 bit extensions and a graphical shell
Windoze 95 > > [on top of] a 16 bit patch msdos > > to an 8 bit operating system cp/m? > > originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, Probably intel 4004? > > written by a 2 bit company, m$ > > that can't stand 1 bit of competition." > > This was a description of Windows 95 and its legacy going back to Bill Gates > and > Paul Allen making their deal with IBM for an operating system for its personal > computer. -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin
