Re: Win95 vs Lose95

[mcrump@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Unfortunately it's like crying over spilt milk.  The market
has chosen and now we can suffer from it.  Remember
all the hype over Lose95 (I like that) when it came out?
The salvation for desktops as it turns out seems to be
WIN 3.1 and DOS with some slightly improved memory
functions and a brand new GUI.....nothing more.

Here, at work we avoid Lose95 except for latptops.  All
desktops have NT.  We seem to have some misc.
issues with NT on laptops with PCMCIA and drivers.
At home, I got pissed enough (sorry) to uninstall Lose95
and go back to WIN31.  Getting the blue screen of death
once or more a day was not my idea of home computing.
I'm getting ready to reinstall at some point when I feel
like I need the extra stress and gray hairs!

Not to start a raging debate but there is a part of me
that believes WIN95 was nothing more than a stop
gap market acquisition OS.  It helped kill OS/2 and
the MAC  to a degree (with the help of some nice
almost anti-competitive business practices) and
allowed NT to mature which seems to be where
M$ wants us anyway.

Architecturally, I am still waiting for M$ to write a desktop
OS instead of a device driver GUI.  I'm holding out on my
opinion of NT but 3.1 and 95 don't cut it.  This is an area
that OS/2 really had an edge but........

Sorry for the soapbox....


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