History of Windows!!!!!!!!!

This is what teens think of Windows!!!!!!!!!!!!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ucCxtgN6sc


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satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows.

On 22/9/2017 12:16 AM, Good Guy wrote:

This is what teens think of Windows!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ucCxtgN6sc

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On 09/21/2017 12:16 PM, Good Guy wrote:


This is what teens think of Windows!!!!!!!!!!!!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ucCxtgN6sc


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With over 500 million devices now running Windows 10, customer
satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows.
It's kind of a hoot to see their reactions.
I liked their pointing out their demand for wi-fi and computer speed.
How easily any of us that have been through those years forget the time
we spent then doing the things we do now in seconds.

On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 17:16:58 +0100, Good Guy
wrote:



This is what teens think of Windows!!!!!!!!!!!!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ucCxtgN6sc

I was never content until Windows ME, when thumbnails were possible in
Explorer.

On 9/21/2017 12:38 PM, Big Al wrote:
On 09/21/2017 12:16 PM, Good Guy wrote:


This is what teens think of Windows!!!!!!!!!!!!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ucCxtgN6sc


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With over 500 million devices now running Windows 10, customer
satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows.
It's kind of a hoot to see their reactions.
I liked their pointing out their demand for wi-fi and computer speed.
How easily any of us that have been through those years forget the time
we spent then doing the things we do now in seconds.


Would love to see their reaction to DOS era text-based games like
Adventure (AKA Colossal Cave) or rogue. :-) :-) :-)

Heck, I remember playing Adventure on a TI SILENT 700.

Damn, I'm a seriously old fart!
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Ron C wrote in news:WOidnW4x2fCb31nEnZ2dnUU7-
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On 9/21/2017 12:38 PM, Big Al wrote:
Would love to see their reaction to DOS era text-based games like
Adventure (AKA Colossal Cave) or rogue. :-) :-) :-)

Heck, I remember playing Adventure on a TI SILENT 700.

Damn, I'm a seriously old fart!

The first computer I programed (played) on was a PDP 11 with 24KB of memory
(Yes, KILO bytes) with one CRT terminal and one teletype terminal.

My first programing job had an IBM 370/135 with 512KB of CORE memory,
running five partitions. We were programing on Datapoint 5500s with 48KB of
memory. We were running five VT100 interactive terminals off of that,
developing business applications.

As the saying goes, "We've come a long way baby!"

On 09/21/2017 07:20 PM, Tim wrote:
Ron C wrote in news:WOidnW4x2fCb31nEnZ2dnUU7-
:

On 9/21/2017 12:38 PM, Big Al wrote:
Would love to see their reaction to DOS era text-based games like
Adventure (AKA Colossal Cave) or rogue. :-) :-) :-)

Heck, I remember playing Adventure on a TI SILENT 700.

Damn, I'm a seriously old fart!

The first computer I programed (played) on was a PDP 11 with 24KB of memory
(Yes, KILO bytes) with one CRT terminal and one teletype terminal.

My first programing job had an IBM 370/135 with 512KB of CORE memory,
running five partitions. We were programing on Datapoint 5500s with 48KB of
memory. We were running five VT100 interactive terminals off of that,
developing business applications.

As the saying goes, "We've come a long way baby!"

I programmed a proprietary system with only 64K of core memory. I never
thought there was anything but core till the company changed to volatile
128K memory. They probably would have died for the non-volatile memory
we have now.

Big Al wrote in news
On 09/21/2017 07:20 PM, Tim wrote:
I programmed a proprietary system with only 64K of core memory. I
never thought there was anything but core till the company changed to
volatile 128K memory. They probably would have died for the
non-volatile memory we have now.

I used to tell people when I was talking about those systems a quote I once
read, I think from Dr. Jonshon. "The wonder of a dancing bear is not how
well it dances, but that it dances at all!"

I think back to that Datapoint 5500 with its 48K of memory, and that it was
capable of supporting eight(!) ASCII terminals each able to run real
business applications, and wonder what our systems today would be capable
of if they had received the same obvious care in writing compact, efficient
code. Of course today, hardware is cheap, software is expensive. I can
remember spending two whole days tweaking the print spooler program for our
package so that the printing loop would fit in one page of memory so the
system wouldn't be forced to reload two pages of code each pass through the
loop. [No virtual memory - each terminal had one page of memory to execute
from. In this case, by keeping the whole routine within that page, the
system didn't have to reload it every iteration of the loop. Otherwise it
would have wound up 1st page, 2nd page, 1st page, 2nd page, et.cetera,
until the job was printed. And man I felt good when I succeeded.]

Big Al wrote:


I programmed a proprietary system with only 64K of core memory. I never
thought there was anything but core till the company changed to volatile
128K memory. They probably would have died for the non-volatile memory
we have now.

Magnetic core memory was certainly volatile. That means that the
contents go away when the power is turned off. In those days, we had
drums, disks, and Hollerith cards for non-volatile memory.

There are lots of computer features that we take for granted today
that we wouldn't even have believed possible then.

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Tim Slattery
tim at risingdove dot com

Tim Slattery wrote:
Big Al wrote:


I programmed a proprietary system with only 64K of core memory. I never
thought there was anything but core till the company changed to volatile
128K memory. They probably would have died for the non-volatile memory
we have now.

Magnetic core memory was certainly volatile. That means that the
contents go away when the power is turned off. In those days, we had
drums, disks, and Hollerith cards for non-volatile memory.

There are lots of computer features that we take for granted today
that we wouldn't even have believed possible then.


Core was non-volatile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_memory

"When not being read or written, the cores maintain the last
value they had, even when power is turned off. This makes
them nonvolatile."

We had an HP programmable desktop calculator (1970 vintage),
that you could switch off the AC power, roll the machine and
its flatbed plotter into another room, plug it in, and the
program step contents in core was still there. It worked.

Paul