YATYRD (was: PalmOS no more? :(

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Teo Zenios wrote:

> While Windows 3.1 and 95 might not be "cool" these days, I predict it will
> be in 10 or more years to quite a few people. I have machines dedicated to
> Windows 3.1 and Win 95 now to run old apps I have (Win 3.11) or to play
> retro games (Win 95). Every collector has an era of machines they are
> interested in for various reasons, what is cool to you might not be cool to
> me. Do people just have issues with mainstream OS's and hardware? If IBM
> owned the desktop market today with OS/2 would Win 3.1 and 95 be cool to
> talk about?

It certainly remainds to be seen.  Today, we like an old OS because we
used it back in the day and now it's basically gone and considered quaint
(RT11 for instance).  We use others that are old because even though they
are old they are still viable (i.e. PC-DOS) or are still evolving (Unix).

How viable (or dead) will Win95 be in 10-20 years?  And will we feel the
same about it as we do with, say, PC-DOS?  I doubt it.

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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