10 Nov
2008
10 Nov
'08
5:13 a.m.
Liam Proven wrote:
I've worked with many qualified IT professionals
who have never seen
any version of Windows older than XP (released 2001) and no other
general-purpose computer OS of any kind ever other than Windows. In my
first full-time job as an IT journalist, in 1995-1996, I met many
people who had no experience of any version of Windows before Windows
95 - when that product was less than a year old.
I still run into quite a few people who don't know that there are
operating systems besides Windows and OS X. Some have a vague concept
of "those old computers" that ran "something else".
Tapes are history.
Not hardly. They've finally got stiff competition in off-site
spinning copies and second- and third-tier disk arrays, but they're a
long, long way from going away as production hardware.
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