22 Oct
2018
22 Oct
'18
7:34 p.m.
On Oct 20, 2018, at 10:31 AM, Tomasz Rola via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Oooh. My personal recollection about w95 is that there was a lot of
touting before the premiere day, how advanced it was because "object
oriented operating system?.
[...]
I might have been one of the very few people who not
only
understood some of the buzzwords but also was duped into believing
there should be some substance behind them (which maybe makes me
exceptional, just not in a good way).
A lot of Windows 95 is implemented using COM, which is probably where the description of
it as ?object-oriented? comes from.
And while I have never been a Windows user, to denigrate it as some sort of
non-achievement given the constraints under which it was developed, both in terms of
target systems and backwards compatibility, is myopic at best.
-- Chris