13 Dec
2005
13 Dec
'05
10:51 p.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
Yes, this is Microsoft Cancer(tm). It exists on all of the DOS-legacy versions
(95, 98, 98se, ME).
What prompted me to move from 98 to 2000 was that, at some point, I lost the
ability to drag icons. I could delete them, right-click-to-get-properties
them, etc. but not drag once icon onto another to get things to happen, which
is functionality I had become accustomed to. A week later, things magically
started working again.
I'm not sure which infurated me more -- the fact that I lost the ability to
drag icons, or the fact that it started working again with no involvement on my
part. Both were terms for dismissal ;-)
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Well, IMHO,
Win95 was rather close to a real multitasking system, at
least for Win32 programs. Maybe not as good as Linux or even NT, but
it got the job done and got it done significantly better than 3.x
My main problem with it was that it tended to disintegrate over time and
eventually would need a reinstall as functionality would start to break
and free disk space would mysteriously vanish...