Subj : Re: Windows vs Linux
To   : Gamgee
From : Nightfox
Date : Mon Apr 25 2022 18:42:35

  Re: Re: Windows vs Linux
  By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Mon Apr 25 2022 07:10 pm

 Ga> Yes, I remember those days with IE problems too. It was like a vicious 
 Ga> circle - design your site to work with IE, or else! The backing behind 
 Ga> the demand was that IE was the dominant browser and they didn't want the 
 Ga> upstart new browsers to take any market share away. I don't think I've 
 Ga> "trusted" Microsoft since the first version of Windows showed up. I did 
 Ga> like MS-DOS in the days before that, though.

I hadn't been using PCs much in those days.  My dad always had computers around, but I don't remember him getting an IBM-compatible PC until the mid-late 80s.  I think the first version of MS-DOS I remember using was probably 3.31, and 5.0 later.  The first version of Windows I remember using was version 3.0 in 1990.  I thought it all was fairly cool, but I started to be frustrated with Windows when it seemed slow and sometimes unstable, where other similar (less popular) software was arguably better..  In the mid-90s, I was hoping OS/2 might start to catch on more, but Windows was already a sort of default by then.

Nightfox
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