Happy Birthday, Windows!
Nov. 21st, 2015 04:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneVersion 1 was released 30 years ago Friday.
Wow.
I never messed with 1, I did mess with Windows 286 and it was pretty much garbage. That would have been around '89, IIRC. There wasn't much in the GUI/multi-tasking world. The first successful commercial release, Windows 3.0, followed by Windows for Workgroups 3.1 and Windows NT 3, were big improvements. NT was an excellent product: its improved memory management eliminated the crashes in Access that were a perpetual plague compared to running it under Workgroups.
Still, I'm writing this on an Apple MacBook Air, and I can't see me going back to Windows for my primary home computing stuff.
Wow.
I never messed with 1, I did mess with Windows 286 and it was pretty much garbage. That would have been around '89, IIRC. There wasn't much in the GUI/multi-tasking world. The first successful commercial release, Windows 3.0, followed by Windows for Workgroups 3.1 and Windows NT 3, were big improvements. NT was an excellent product: its improved memory management eliminated the crashes in Access that were a perpetual plague compared to running it under Workgroups.
Still, I'm writing this on an Apple MacBook Air, and I can't see me going back to Windows for my primary home computing stuff.
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Date: 2015-11-21 11:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-11-22 04:06 pm (UTC)And some old games.