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CowboyTeal writes:
"Windows 8 is still being disputed as either the product of a genius or a nerdy sadist but that doesn't mean Windows 9 isn't in the works. That said, how would you guys improve Windows if you could change anything about it? Has windows 8 improved or degraded your overall experience of the Windows platform? If you're not a Windows user, what features would you like to see in Windows for possible assimilation?"
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(Score: 0) by mendax on Sunday March 02 2014, @05:05PM
I don't know where you got your history from but this is completely wrong. I wrote a Windows app for Windows 3.1 way back when, then ported it to the Win32 API when I discovered the Win32S package that would generally allow programs using the Win32 API running in the already well-established, multitasking and stable Windows NT to run in 16-bit Windows on a 32-bit machine. This was about a year before the introduction of Windows 95. Thus, I know something about this history. The basic Win32 API is essentially the original 16-bit Windows API with some adjustments. When Windows 95 came out, Windows NT was already well-established but not being used by the masses, mainly because memory was astoundingly expensive in those days (I paid $500 for 16 MB in 1995). Windows 95 could run fairly well in 4 MB.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday March 03 2014, @12:11PM
Ok fine, but the point is the API is not tied to the kernel, since the NT kernel and the Win95/98/Me kernel have very little in common, but both support the Win32 API.
(Score: 1) by EvilJim on Tuesday March 04 2014, @08:16PM
Shit son, last time I bought ram for retail it was 8mb for $800. that was right after the factory fire or something, my single speed cd rom drive and soundblaster was $680, all on a 486 sx-25, man those were the days.
(Score: 0) by mendax on Wednesday March 05 2014, @08:04AM
Well, this was memory for a 33 mhz 486DX. It did run Windows 95 nicely after getting all that memory. After the upgrade it had 20 mb of RAM.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.