On 17 July 2016 at 19:33, Jerry Kemp wrote:
> windows 95 - yea, even bill gates stated that windows 95 was the pinnacle.
Er, what? When?
> ease of installation - maybe due to the fact that the bulk, if not all of us
> here are experienced users, I've never understood the belly-aching
> concernin
windows 95 - yea, even bill gates stated that windows 95 was the pinnacle.
ease of installation - maybe due to the fact that the bulk, if not all of us
here are experienced users, I've never understood the belly-aching concerning
installation. Not for DOS/windows, not for OS/2, not for BSD, no
On 15 July 2016 at 20:48, Jerry Kemp wrote:
> I guess I am glad that someone getting something positive from windows.
>
> I have never viewed it as any more than a virus distribution system with a
> poorly written GUI front end.
I am ambivalent. I don't particularly like it any more, but the
rea
I guess I am glad that someone getting something positive from windows.
I have never viewed it as any more than a virus distribution system with a
poorly written GUI front end.
Jerry
On 07/15/16 12:15 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
On 15 July 2016 at 00:39, Jerry Kemp wrote:
I still judge OS/2 to
On 15 July 2016 at 00:39, Jerry Kemp wrote:
> I still judge OS/2 to be one of the better x86 options for the early and mid
> 1990's.
Oh, definitely, yes. It truly was "a better DOS than DOS and a better
Windows than Windows".
Then MS moved the goalposts and improved Windows and leapfrogged it -
Thanks for the comments, it's always educational to get the viewpoints and
experiences from others, on items that are "shared ground".
I didn't mean to come off like an OS/2 fanatic. I started using OS/2 around
1990, early 1991 at the latest, and short of Unix (I wasn't a Unix fanatic at
the
On Thu, 14 Jul 2016, Jerry Kemp wrote:
> I'm missing something here. Although most did/are using the Apple
> supplied GUI/Aqua, it wasn't a requirement.
Perhaps there is a way to run an X11 server without Aqua, but I don't know
of it. However, I'm far from an OSX expert.
> I have/run OpenWindo
