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To: that_crazy_doug who wrote (38851)	5/10/2001 10:39:12 AM
From: Pravin Kamdar	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

A couple of articles from Taiwan (nothing really new): nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com Pravin.

To: that_crazy_doug who wrote (38851)	5/10/2001 10:52:52 AM
From: jcholewa	Respond to of 275872

> Hehe, I'm curious what you considered a competent OS for > consumers in the years between 92 and now was? Any "DOS" branded operating system, like 4Dos, IBM-DOS, or MS-DOS -- even those DR-DOS guys who got forced out of the market by unethical competition (yikes, they're relegated to the "boot disk for cpu upgrade cards" category now!!!) -- sufficed as the best for mainstream for the first couple years of Win32's existence. Games sucked ass on Win9x for a while. Application support was faster, but the installed base in MS-DOS was large enough to sustain it until several years into the domination of Win32. I should note that Win32s -- the 32-bit extension library thing for MSWin3.x -- increased the pre-Win9x life of computing for a little while, too. It allowed us to play Solitaire and Minesweeper, which until like 1997 were the only real games for Win9x. Well, actually, there was that pinball game, but nobody actually knew where it was kept on the Windows CD anyway. And that 3D game packaged with OSR2.1 sucked anyway. From late 1997 through to early 2000, there was no competent OS for consumers. Except maybe for MacOS, but the hardware for that stuff was too damned expensive. And I was too much of a wimp to try out Be or X.