Board:   [fsxNet] fsx General
Subject: Re: os/2 and hi!!!!!
From:    poindexter FORTRAN (21:4/122)
Date:    Sun Oct 25, 2026 08:56

-=> phigan wrote to xaxyiel <=-

 > windows 3.1x is not as bad as the
 > newer versions

 ph> I'd argue that all day ;). BITD I would spend forever installing
 ph> Windows 3.x every once in a while.. just to remind myself how bad it
 ph> is. And sure enough, about 15-20 minutes later, I'm doing deltree
 ph> c:\windows. Sooo much time wasted.

 The trick was making a backup as soon as you installed it.    :)

 Having .ini files instead of a registry made it easy to fix, and the
 TCP/IP addin to Windows for Workgroups 3.11 made running apps much
 smoother than running Trumpet Winsock.

 Back then - renting an apartment, single, no family - I had no demands
 on my time. Computers were all new and interesting, so spending time
 swapping floppy disks didn't seem like that much of an issue - whether
 it was installing OS/2 and the fixpacks, Windows 3.11, tweaking .ini
 files, config.sys files, running memmaker, watching it crash,
 re-tweaking config.sys files, hand-configuring IRQs...

 If I had to do that now, I'd probably move to a farm and raise
 chickens.

 Back in 1994, some of my developers got a hold of early Chicago
 (Windows 95) builds. Seeing that was like logging onto the web for the
 first time, knew it was going to be a game changer.
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