On 11/11/2023 03:08, Joel Crump wrote:
On 11/10/2023 7:01 PM, ? Good Guy ? wrote:
Microsoft Windows just hit a major milestone — its 40th birthday.
I don't count anything before 3.x. But that's a hell of a long time, I
was 13, 18 when 95 hit. But I stood in line at Egghead Software to buy
Windows 95 on CD-ROM media, introducing the now-familiar product key.
Well, I can count something before Windows.
MS. Dos, and before that CP/M.
But, indeed, Windows started with 3. It was wonderfull in these days!
Fokke Nauta
I had CP/M for an Apple II system. We had all kinds of floppy disks
of stuff.
But, indeed, Windows started with 3. It was wonderfull in these days!
Win2.x was cool, but never really had enough of a foothold in the
market, 3.x was an unbelievable and venerable success, and 95 through
Me thrived as successors, with XP finally merging home and business
use (along with a major Win2000 service pack that made it equally
functional as a 9x upgrade).
Fokke Nauta <usenet@solfon.nl> wrote:
Joel Crump wrote:
Good Guy wrote:
Microsoft Windows just hit a major milestone — its 40th birthday.
I don't count anything before 3.x. But that's a hell of a long
time, I was 13, 18 when 95 hit. But I stood in line at Egghead
Software to buy Windows 95 on CD-ROM media, introducing the
now-familiar product key.
Well, I can count something before Windows.
MS. Dos, and before that CP/M.
But, indeed, Windows started with 3. It was wonderfull in these days!
There was actually a WIndows 1 (which came on a single 5.25" floppy). Somebody gave me a pirated version which I never installed as I'd read reviews calling it crap (on a scale of 1 to 10 the reviewer would have
used a negative number) and I presume I eventually pitched it with the
last of my 5.25" floppies 2 or 3 years after my 5.25" drive yielded up
the ghost.
The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:[...]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows_version_history
Version 1 was released Nov 20, 1985, so "Windows" is just over 38 years
old. 3.1x doesn't count any more than 1.0 since Windows back then was a
GUI shell atop DOS. Don't know where 40 years came from other than a
coarse estimate. Good Guy isn't all that accurate in his posts. I
VanguardLH <V@nguard.lh> wrote:
The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:[...]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows_version_history
Version 1 was released Nov 20, 1985, so "Windows" is just over 38 years
old. 3.1x doesn't count any more than 1.0 since Windows back then was a
GUI shell atop DOS. Don't know where 40 years came from other than a
coarse estimate. Good Guy isn't all that accurate in his posts. I
I already mentioned on November 11 [1] that GG's claim
Microsoft Windows just hit a major milestone — its 40th birthday.
</GG>
is 'correct' in the sense that it was the *birthday* of Windows, not the first *release*, which was not until *two years later*.
[Repeat of relevant URL and quote:]
<https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/history/history-of-microsoft-1983>
"November 10, 1983
Microsoft unveils Windows, an extension of the MS-DOS operating system
that provides a graphical operating environment. Windows features a
window management capability that allows a user to view unrelated
application programs simultaneously. It also provides the capability to
transfer data from one application program to another. Windows wouldn't
actually ship until 2 years later."
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