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until the power supply fried Interesting. Re stability, people bitched Windows 95 a lot, but I only encountered serious issues when 98 came out. XP was very st
by tfranco 8y ago
until the power supply fried
Interesting. Re stability, people bitched Windows 95 a lot, but I only encountered serious issues when 98 came out. XP was very stable... but don't get me started on Windows ME.
- santoshalper 8y agoA lot of perceived stability issues in Windows 95/98 were actually driver issues. Back then, all drivers ran with full privilege and could bring down the entire OS if they had a hiccup. Crashes due to bugs in the graphics driver, sound driver, etc. were really common.
- tfranco 8y agoThat is still why Apple shines today. They have full control on the Hardware's supply chain, and a billionth fewer drivers to support.
- hapnin 8y agoI do miss winnuke. For a brief period, it was a great way to shutdown spammers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinNuke https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinNuke
- tfranco 8y agoI miss BlackOrifice and the free internet access that came with it...
- saganus 8y agoI miss Hacker's Paradise (later renamed Master's Paradise, in an attempt to switch to a legitimate use case, i.e. remote sys administration). The author of that was kind enough to send me the Delphi source code and since then I was hooked on OOP. Such interesting times.