http://rc3.org/2008/11/10/old-software-never-dies/ Strong opinions weakly held Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:43:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://rc3.org/2008/11/10/old-software-never-dies/comment-page-1/#comment-3262 Jacob Davies Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:37:56 +0000 http://rc3.org/?p=8693#comment-3262 <p>Windows 3.1 wasn't bad at all. It is pretty amazing that it took until 1992 for the primary computing platform to get a decent multitasking OS with a GUI though. I mean, it was only a couple of years after that that Netscape rolled along ready to crush Windows like a bug. (How'd that work out again? Hmm.)</p> Windows 3.1 wasn’t bad at all. It is pretty amazing that it took until 1992 for the primary computing platform to get a decent multitasking OS with a GUI though. I mean, it was only a couple of years after that that Netscape rolled along ready to crush Windows like a bug. (How’d that work out again? Hmm.)

]]> http://rc3.org/2008/11/10/old-software-never-dies/comment-page-1/#comment-3261 Howard Berkey Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:36:59 +0000 http://rc3.org/?p=8693#comment-3261 <p>OS/2, on the other hand: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EComStation" rel="nofollow">still shipping</a>. IBM, late to the party since 1987.</p> OS/2, on the other hand: still shipping. IBM, late to the party since 1987.

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