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CountMike said:

I got my 95 on a CD. 3.11 was last one I got on floppies and still have them although i made an ISO from them too.

So, somebody's idea of torture was to have me write FORTRAN code to calculate molecular orbitals for H₂ on a PDP 11. This was pre-Fortran 77.

Well, though, I finally managed to purchase a Sperry 8088 running CP/M, WordStar. When I installed DOS 3.0, I was the luckiest M2 at Harvard Medical School. After I installed 3.11, it became shockingly obvious that my backup went maybe 3 directories deep. I was doing a concurrent PhD, and that's where my dissertation lived.

Illo tempore, jumping in the Charles River and swimming to Serbia had its allure.

johngalt said:

No, she was not. She was responding to Doogie, who made the comment that her previous post was full of vitriol. I've linked the post below - in it are the quotations from Doogie and her previous post to which Doogie originally replied to.
And it was all about the nuances of the meanings of the word vitriol - here in the USA, a post that is referred to as being vitriolic / being full of vitriol is taken, at face value, to mean being insulting, derogatory, or in other way offensive. Hence her reply. And if you continue in the thread on down you'll see there was a brief discussion about the semantics of the word vitriol. So, please, don't start attributing comments indiscriminately - that will only lead to more arguments and less discussion.

You completely missed the most important thing. When I said she was responding to my post, I meant the "vitriol" post!!!!!!! Lol. So what I wrote was NOT "attributing comments indiscriminately", I was pointing out that mine was the comment which produced the vitriol comment. And I wanted to defend and explain that I was NOT saying M$ needed to remove emoji's, but was listing an example of things they waste time on, when they have allowed many "real" problems with the core structure of the OS to go unattended to for months.

Wynona said:

I think you're putting a little too much responsibility on Microsoft when you say, can't even get core things, such as graphics drivers, card readers and several other vital parts of an OS fixed and optimized!!!!!!!! Take a desktop computer...

There have been tons of discusions on this very forum from a whole slew of posters who have complained time and time again about basic parts of Windows being broken and fixed over and over. You can search for the details, but I assume you can remember many of them as you were part of some of those conversations. So I am NOT alone in this sentiment. My point is, and has been for quite some time now, that M$ continually wastes time on periferal things while allowing more important common OS functionality to go unrepaired for months. I totally understand that 3rd party venders need to keep up with the changes, but to assume that it is COMPLETELY on the venders every single time, and that M$, being the angelic company they are being portrayed to be, have no responsibility in this is shallow thinking in my opinion. It is further my opinion that M$ is not nearly as customer centric as some of you perfer to believe they are. I believe they do try to market themselves as such, but their actions speak a completely different language. They have introduced features and then those features just disappear. They have broken parts of the OS, and fixed them, only to break them again a build later. They say that they are listening to the insiders, but more than an estimated 85% of the complaints and problems listed in the Insiders Hub go unattended to, and are never fixed. And I believe that they only pay attention to things they have on their agenda, and when those things jibe with some feedback, they take credit for listening to the insiders and giving them what they asked for. JMHO. If you feel differently I'm completely fine with that.

f14tomcat said:

Hope we get a build today I can install.

Me too. My schedule just suddenly and unexpectedly opened up, and I need something to occupy my mind for a few hours. Lol.

CountMike said:

I got my 95 on a CD. 3.11 was last one I got on floppies and still have them although i made an ISO from them too.

Same here...