Subj : Re: Cobol/gnucobol
To : Jcurtis
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Fri May 30 2025 07:51 am
-=> Jcurtis wrote to BORAXMAN <=-
> Windows back in the late 90s was far, far more unstable
Jc> I have a stable Windows 3.11 setup. You need enough memory to eliminate
Jc> the paging file. There was a bug that persisted until Windows 98.
That just reminded me of a guy who did graphics work in the 2000s. He
wanted a cheap way to demonstrate proofs to clients and to do some basic
manipulation for them.
He settled on an Android tablet, installed DOSBOX, got Windows 3.11
running in it and installed Photoshop 4, which ran under Windows 3.x.
You could shock people at the coffee shop with an android tablet with a
keyboard and Windows 3.11. :)
(Now I want to load Windows NT Workstation on something...)
> Now they do everything on the phone
Jc> Phone touch screens don't suit my fingers. I like a computer keyboard.
> A lot of software is crappy though, at least by *my* expectations.
Jc> It all went wrong around the time programmers thought they could
Jc> develop anything. That job belongs to senior systems analysts.
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