Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point' - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

1 Aug 2016

Never did try OS/2. ?I had friends who were fanatics about it. ?There was a big push back
then to go to it. ?When that failed they rallied to Linux. ?Really should set up a box
here with it and try it out.

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-------- Original message --------
From: Jerry Kemp <other at oryx.us> 
Date: 2016-08-01  8:26 PM  (GMT-08:00) 
To: General at classiccmp.org, "Discussion at classiccmp.org:On-Topic and Off-Topic
Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> 
Subject: Re: Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point' 

Understood.?? That was OS/2 2.0 for me, after I had settled into OS/2 1.3

Unix took me longer to warm up to.

Jerry

On 08/ 1/16 07:29 PM, Brad H wrote:
...

 I would call Win 95 a high point also. I lived near Toronto at the time and
 remember the unfurling of a huge Win 95 banner down one side. There were events
 everywhere. MS was really at their zenith. The excitement around that launch was
 like nothing since. I believe I got swept up and installed it immediately but
 shortly after removed it. Couldn't get used to the interface. Eventually for one
 reason or another I had to and did go back to it. Wasn't the greatest or most
 stable OS and was kind of a half breed at that, but man.. what I wouldn't give
 to feel the anticipation again, the difference between it and DOS. Nothing
 released on either PC or Mac has come close.
 Brad