Microsoft-Paul Allen

On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 01:50:20AM -0600, Jim Manley via cctalk 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". The premiere came, the toutings quickly faded away, never heard any kind of objection about this aspect. I, for quite long time, had been thinking W95 was a scam because for the life of me I could not spot any sign of its object-orientedness (and there was nothing else interesting enough to make me want to tinker with this... something). It was only years later that it finally came to me: 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). Nowadays, I consider W95 as very interesting subject of study - a technical product of non-technical genius(es) (ok, if there were tech geniuses involved in its making, I would say it does not show up). It took a lot of manipulation and wind sniffing to make it such a big success, and plenty of intellectual indolence from rivals and customers. :-) -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_rola at bigfoot.com **