Windows humor

[Ivanhoe]

[bojan]

2000 Pro rocked.

 

[Ivanhoe]

Yeah, hard to believe the same company that developed Me also developed 2000.

[sunday]

15 minutes ago, Ivanhoe said:

Yeah, hard to believe the same company that developed Me also developed 2000.

Were you developed by Microsoft??? 😨

[Murph]

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[Murph]

[Ivanhoe]

[TrustMe]

On 9/10/2024 at 3:59 PM, Ivanhoe said:

 

I'm old enough to remember Windows 3.0. When 3.1 came it was like "wow" VGA graphics card multiple 256 colours  

 

[Murph]

I started on PC Dos 1.1!  and yes I agree.  

[Ssnake]

Windows for Workgroups 3.11 would have deserved a separate picture - several trailers connected by some obscure wire.

[TrustMe]

22 hours ago, Murph said:

I started on PC Dos 1.1!  and yes I agree.  

*takes off hat in respect*

[Ssnake]

GEM DOS. Hah!

And PC/M.

 

Actually, I ran into PC/M again, in 1995, during an internship at the municipal administration of the city of Pasewalk which featured a sparkling jewel, the Robotron Wortprozessor with a 7in green CRT that would garble the screen whenever you would type a letter (and stabilize only after you stopped typing). Double 5.25 floppy drive (single-sided, 180kB each). And lo and behold, the GDR technicians had cloned PC/M, so I could actually work with that monster.

[Murph]

WOW! That IS old school!

[Ssnake]

Formative teenage years.

Digital Research's PC/M was what pretty much every machine had prior to the IBM PC, especially the machines cheap enough to make it into German households in the early 1980s, other than the C64. PC/M then received the GEM GUI - which was licensed to the Atari ST (so DR stole it from Apple who stole it from Xerox, and later MS stole it from Apple too, and released it as Windows). DR was royally pissed that IBM licensed DOS from Microsoft and eventually sued themselves back into the PC market as DR-DOS, some may remember. Of course, it was way too late at that point. MS-DOS was licensed not just to IBM, but every IBM clone, and won the game simply by sheer numbers. Just like IBM didn't understand that they were throwing away an entire market by clinging to their "Mainframe First" strategy, Digital Research didn't want to sacrifice their profit margins for volume - until it was too late.

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