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It largely depended on what computers you had access to in the 90's, DOS and Windows PCs indeed felt medieval in the early and mid-90's compared to the Amigas,
by flohofwoe 4y ago
It largely depended on what computers you had access to in the 90's, DOS and Windows PCs indeed felt medieval in the early and mid-90's compared to the Amigas, Ataris, Acorns, Apples, SGIs, Suns and NeXTs.
- ben_w 4y ago> Apples I dunno about that, I had a Performa 5200 in the late 90s[0], and I think I was getting at least one "System Error Type 11 [Restart]" per week. I think I still prefer the Classic MacOS UI over modern styles, but I'm not sure how much of that is "greymuzzle has rose-tinted memory of childhood" vs. "skeumorphism is genuinely useful as it makes it clear what things are buttons vs. labels". [0] bought with a combination of pocket money, skipping lunch to save the school lunch money, and even then only affordable because PC World discounted it by more than 50% as an ex-demo model