Old MS-DOS & WIN Software

[Jules Richardson]

Madcrow Maxwell wrote:
> Well, IMHO, Win95 was rather close to a real multitasking system, at
> least for Win32 programs. Maybe not as good as Linux or even NT, but
> it got the job done and got it done significantly better than 3.x

My main problem with it was that it tended to disintegrate over time and 
eventually would need a reinstall as functionality would start to break and 
free disk space would mysteriously vanish...

All modern OSes (MS-based and otherwise) seem to suffer from that, but Win95 
was the worst.

> And before people go bashing 95 anymore, I want to go on record as
> saying it's one of the few M$ products I actually like. It runs well
> on even a 486 with only 8 MB of RAM

Not for program development it doesn't. Been there, done that! I can believe 
it works well enough for WP and the like though.

I'd say it was the point where the downward spiral of ever-increasing 
application bloat started though. I don't remember Win 3.x apps or even apps 
on other platforms being as colossal as the typical Win95 app was, and it's 
all gradually got worse since then.  I'm not sure whether Win95 itself is the 
root cause of that or not - probably not, but it's strange that it happened 
around that time period.

cheers

Jules