Comment Re:Maybe If They Ran Windows 3.1? (Score 1) 395
Windows 3.1 was in no way crash proof. In fact I can honestly say my time using it was the most prone to reboots in my whole computing experience so far.
*danger of heavy reminiscing* This being a experience that started on things like Acorn Electrons, BBC model B's, Amstrad CPC464 and later cpc6128. An ICL OPD, Amiga ST 500, ICL 286, DRS PWS 386dx+387 copro running DOS3.3. Then came the 486dx2 16Mb ram and nearly 1GB of made from full height 660MB and 330MB drives space which dual booted DR DOS and slackware which I recall had kernel 1.2.13 on that whoch donwloaded over a 14400 modem. */danger of heavy reminiscing*
While windows 3.1 was installed on those later machines I avoided when ever possible. Admittedly using the internet involved install a trumpet tcp/ip stack, gopher, archie and mosaic and then of course netscape. I mainly had to use 3.1 in college, we were all allocated with 5 1/4" floppy discs and if I didn't save my work in whatever I used before using any other feature there was a real risk of losing it. Simply printing a doc could cause a lock up. I would reboot... must have been at least 7 or 8 times a day. Then win95 came along and dropped the reboots to one or 2.
These days my work XP machine reboots usually when a security update requires or after a couple of weeks it can get weird. My linux home machines never reboot unless for hardware or a kernel update.
Just my serveral cents...
*danger of heavy reminiscing* This being a experience that started on things like Acorn Electrons, BBC model B's, Amstrad CPC464 and later cpc6128. An ICL OPD, Amiga ST 500, ICL 286, DRS PWS 386dx+387 copro running DOS3.3. Then came the 486dx2 16Mb ram and nearly 1GB of made from full height 660MB and 330MB drives space which dual booted DR DOS and slackware which I recall had kernel 1.2.13 on that whoch donwloaded over a 14400 modem. */danger of heavy reminiscing*
While windows 3.1 was installed on those later machines I avoided when ever possible. Admittedly using the internet involved install a trumpet tcp/ip stack, gopher, archie and mosaic and then of course netscape. I mainly had to use 3.1 in college, we were all allocated with 5 1/4" floppy discs and if I didn't save my work in whatever I used before using any other feature there was a real risk of losing it. Simply printing a doc could cause a lock up. I would reboot... must have been at least 7 or 8 times a day. Then win95 came along and dropped the reboots to one or 2.
These days my work XP machine reboots usually when a security update requires or after a couple of weeks it can get weird. My linux home machines never reboot unless for hardware or a kernel update.
Just my serveral cents...
