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- DeadlyNinja, on 01/23/2009, -2/+111Yeah, but can it run Doom?
- pagit, on 01/23/2009, -7/+82my thoughts in jan 1984:
192K bytes of RAM? WTF ?
my PET only has 12 k
I'm going to have to spend 5 k to get a new system after upgrading to a floppy drive from cassette drive
and I only make $4.65 an hour
C:/DOS, C:/DOS/RUN, RUN/DOS/RUN - Wizardo55, on 01/23/2009, -1/+68What's with this forward slash nonsense?
- amauldin71, on 01/23/2009, -3/+66Take a long hard look at those screenshots kiddies, and quit your bitchin' about Vista.
- Falldog, on 01/23/2009, -0/+41If you want a good laugh, click the IE is Evil button at the top. I think I was magically transported back to the days of GeoCities.
- wedges, on 01/23/2009, -1/+33it almost doesn't sound like english. i'm glad computers went mainstream, because i wouldn't be able deal with reading that sort of thing all the time.
- bcassner, on 01/23/2009, -0/+31Ah, the glory days of computing. You actually got a manual on how to use the software, instead of a help file.
- Trigononamous, on 01/23/2009, -6/+24Well it sure as hell can't run Crysis.
- doom777, on 01/23/2009, -0/+16yes
- aduric, on 01/23/2009, -1/+17So I guess this little "mouse-and-window show" did pretty well.
- inactive, on 01/23/2009, -19/+34buried for babyman
even though he probably got paid already - Discola, on 01/23/2009, -0/+15I found this gem in there:
In my opinion, (and I realize most people will disagree), the Internet as we know it currently is just a fad. There will probably be changes and we will all move on to something better. When that happens, IE 4 will be obsolete and then what of Windows 98? Most of the machines will probably be obsolete by then, but the ones in service will still have that stupid browser glued to the user interface and users will ask themselves "why?".
I don't think we have moved on that much from then in terms of what we do on the internet, sure our pages look better, but there has not been any HUGE shifts yet. - inactive, on 01/23/2009, -4/+19Thanks mr. babyman, without you Kevin Rose would not have as much time to party.
- alex7575, on 01/23/2009, -1/+16Wait, weren't the early versions of Windows just a shell to DOS?
- Koushiro, on 01/23/2009, -1/+12I love how they tell people what RAM is. Awesome.
- Myztry, on 01/23/2009, -1/+10No you don't. Amiga was doing vastly superior technology at the time.
Microsoft's strength was business. Not technology.
Commodore was visa-versa. - scamper22, on 01/23/2009, -0/+9If you read the article, you begin to see why Windows was successful, why Unix Failed, why Microsoft sells software, and why Microsoft is not open source.
"Microsoft promises to price Windows "as an operating-system component" - that is, inexpensively."
Yes, many of us don't recall a time pre Microsoft. Sure software was 'free' in many cases, but you were locked in to ridiculously expensive hardware. Therefore, they decided to sell the OS on its own.
"The same enlightened attitude enabled Microsoft to resist the temptation to reserve Windows as an environment for its own applications programs. Microsoft is making Windows available to a number of applications software houses, including some major competitors. "
Microsoft continues this tradition today of course. - Khast, on 01/23/2009, -0/+9Naw, upgraded to Windows 3.11.
- carbonfilament, on 01/23/2009, -0/+9Presence of electrons, absence of electrons. Let the computing begin.
- hbyrne, on 01/23/2009, -3/+11Wow, that brings back painful memories. What a dog the original Windows was. But at that point, everyone was sure DRI's GEM was going to knock it out of the park.
- kouchan21, on 01/23/2009, -0/+8"Microsoft Windows seems to offer remarkable openness, reconfigurability, and transportability as well as modest requirements and pricing. "
- adikt, on 01/23/2009, -0/+8c:\fdisk mbr
- mwalker05, on 01/23/2009, -2/+9http://tinyurl.com/dy4pa3
- deweyhewson, on 01/23/2009, -0/+7It's not an "install" like modern OS's have. It's pretty much just a DOS Shell, of which plenty existed back in the time it was released.
You can easily run it in DOSBox these days for nostalgic value. I have a copy floating around somewhere. - reddoggie, on 01/23/2009, -0/+7Agreed. Got to
"The same enlightened attitude enabled Microsoft to resist the temptation to reserve Windows as an environment for its own applications programs."
and almost lawled coffee through my nose. - CoolHandRemy, on 01/23/2009, -4/+10What is a MrBabyMan anyway?
- LiquidSpark, on 01/23/2009, -0/+6Great article. Reading it makes it pretty clear why MS went on to dominate the OS market. They just built a better mouse trap. It was cheap. it ran on crappy hardware, and they made it easy to develop for.
- inactive, on 01/23/2009, -4/+10"Another factor keeping down the mouse population has been the shortage of things for them to point at (or the shortage of application software). "
My head hurts trying to imagine living in a time like that. - roxgod666, on 01/23/2009, -0/+6Something about 0's and 1's.
Unless you want to enter a vortex of calculations and ***** nobody understands, i recommend you don't google any further. - jggube, on 01/23/2009, -0/+6I'm betting a handful of old-school geeks here still have this installed for nostalgia's sake.
- maz2331, on 01/23/2009, -0/+6All the way up through Windows 98 - although it was much better "hidden" in 95, 98, and ME.
- JammoBlammo, on 01/23/2009, -3/+8RAM (Random Access Read/Write Memory) is what I call it all the time at work. Get with the times bro.
- dragon76, on 01/23/2009, -0/+5No because Doom had to be run in real DOS because it used the 4GW DOS extender to run in protected mode.
- Retrokid, on 01/23/2009, -0/+5It would confuse the average user...
But you can try "Windows key+R"... - inactive, on 01/23/2009, -1/+6A third man, a third baby, a third bot, that dwells in the basement.
- burketo, on 01/23/2009, -1/+5I thought it was an interesting glimpse in the past, what ever happened to microsoft's "enlightened attitude"?
It is very easy to forget why microsoft became such a huge company, but there you have it in black and white. - deweyhewson, on 01/23/2009, -0/+4For anyone wishing to try it out, for nostalgic value:
http://vetusware.com/download/Windows%201.01/?id=8 ...
I'm sure it's considered abandonware by now. - dragon76, on 01/23/2009, -0/+4Barring a surprise product introduction from another company, Microsoft Windows will be the first large-scale test of the desktop metaphor in the hands of its intended users.
That was 1983. We saw why 1984 wasn't like '1984'. Windows didn't catch on until 3.1 in 1992. - Spire3660, on 01/23/2009, -0/+4I would say punched cards were the first 'software'. Wikipedia has them in use all the way back to 1725, controlling looms
- Khast, on 01/23/2009, -1/+5For those who say Windows Vista is a pile of steaming *****.....I dare you to try Windows 1.0..... Now that was a pile of steaming ***** when it came out...which makes any complaint about Vista seem nice. (I have a copy of Windows 1.0 floating around here somewhere....)
Aside from that...at least they fixed Windows Vista with patches and updates. You had to live with the Windows 1.0 problems..since internet wasn't exactly "mainstream" back then....and even if it was available, it was charged by the hour. - doom777, on 01/23/2009, -1/+5"To see the available applications programs, you either use the mouse to position the cursor on the command "Run" or type the letter "R." "
I like that. Microsoft, can we have that in Windows 7? - middlecon, on 01/23/2009, -2/+6doh...I dugg it without looking :( well maybe he didn't steal this one...maybe? no? anyone? Buehler?
- firext0l, on 01/23/2009, -0/+4Vice versa*
Definitely not hyphenated! - Falor42, on 01/24/2009, -0/+4"Hello, my name is Clippy. I have detected that you are feeling depressed about your Visicorp stock from the 80's, would you like assistance in cheering up?"
- theone3, on 01/23/2009, -1/+5GUI is just a fad.
- ehudmh, on 01/23/2009, -0/+4It's amazing that, once upon a time, Windows was praised for running on a smaller amount of memory than it's contemporaries.
- dalectrics, on 01/23/2009, -1/+5I'm so glad you put the /s in because I wouldn't have known otherwise
/THAT WAS SARCASM IN CASE YOU WEREN'T SURE - mKdiR, on 01/23/2009, -3/+6But how did was the computer programmed to understand binary (0's and 1's)? This question confuses me also.
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