Tag archives for MS-DOS
On April 6, 1992, Microsoft released Windows 3.1. Now, we have GNOME 50.
Prior to that, Windows 3.0 was released on May 22, 1990, but people didn't like it that much. Microsoft decided that the presence of Microsoft Reversi impeded sales, so it…
Linux: Backing the wrong horse or beating a dead horse?
Random musings triggered by Dedoimedo's recent Linux, product and the art of essence, a philosophic piece on the “tragic self-sabotage that hampers the potential growth and proliferation of the Linux…
The CPU Apocalypse: Yet Another Effect of Greed
I am sick of the endless string of vulnerabilities because of CPU design flaws. A recent sampler: Meltdown (2018), Spectre (v1, v2, v3, v4, v5, and SpectreRSB in 2018, SWAPGS…
One more reason I was happier with MS-DOS and Windows 3.1
Not because I was younger. Not because of the simplicity of both DOS and 16-bit Windows. Not because I loved a lot Borland's IDEs, with their ncurses-like Turbo Vision UI,…