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Windows 95 launched 25 years ago today.

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    #31
    Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
    Bollocks...
    FOLHH

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      #32
      Originally posted by Paddy View Post
      Yes, 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.
      MVS - big endian, EBCDIC
      Intel - little endian
      OS/2 - ascii
      Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.

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        #33
        Originally posted by jainnode View Post
        FOLHH
        FOBR14
        Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.

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          #34
          Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
          PRAY4BR14
          FTFY

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            #35
            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
            He had a negative bluety on a quackhandle and was quadraspazzed on a lifeglug.

            I look forward to your all knowing and likely sarcastic and unhelpful reply.

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              #36
              Originally posted by quackhandle View Post
              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
              7 and 10 for me.

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                #37
                1. Originally posted by quackhandle View Post
                  I 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.
                Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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                  #38
                  GEM was quite fun.
                  Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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                    #39
                    Originally posted by quackhandle View Post
                    I always thought MS Win OS's went on a theme:

                    Divorced
                    Beheaded
                    Divorced
                    Beheaded
                    Divorced
                    Disemboweled
                    Divorced
                    Beheaded
                    Beheaded
                    Survived

                    qh
                    You're welcome.

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                      #40
                      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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