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People forget how every software developer had to spin up their own patch delivery infrastructure.
by ukuina 3y ago
People forget how every software developer had to spin up their own patch delivery infrastructure.
- danbruc 3y agoIf the company even existed when a Windows update caused an issue. And given the number of Windows installations, even the most obscure software or setup is likely to affect a lot of people.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoBack in the day it wasn’t even reasonably possible. You got a floppy/CD from the store and that was the end of the story. I mean, this is “Netscape just came out” times.
- bluefirebrand 3y agoYep. At best you had an updated version on the next run, but even that was unlikely.
- brewtide 3y agoMy AOL updates in the mailbox always lagged behind, week after week...
- xoxxala 3y agoIn the early 90s, we had a disk replacement policy and would mail people updated floppies on request (and a $10 S&H fee). Few people took advantage of it. We then started hosting some patches on Compuserve, GEnie and Prodigy.