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Absolutely. I was, if anything, trying to caution against assuming that the segment the poster was in was the whole of the market. (Personally I think that the AVP market is too sm…

Hiya. Sorry, but you might not like what I have to say - I still hope that you read it all though. I doubt that this is the future. Maybe it is for a small number of people on HN, …

Windows 1-3 ran on top of DOS, with a small caveat for Windows 3.x Windows 3.x running in 386 Enhanced Mode had a very small multi-threaded preemptive kernel, which it used to hand…

SMTP won because it was simpler, but it's probably good to look at why it was simpler. SMTP handled routing by piggybacking on DNS. When an email arrives the SMTP server looks at t…

What I really liked about ZoneAlarm wasn't just that it was a very nice technology - and it was; but also that it got the user expectations and training right from a very early sta…

Yes and no. Yes. The incentives for writing reliable, robust code were much higher. The internet existed so you could, in theory, get a patch out for people to download - but a siz…

Yo. Firstly, thanks for the trip down memory lane - well written, engaging, fun. My mind is still stuck in those days even after finishing the article, as you can tell from my anac…

Not a bad article - thanks! Others are pointing out that you cannot understand everything - and that's true enough. But you only need to understand what's important. The experience…

Quite the nostalgia blast for me! I'm honestly not sure I had a machine with more than 2 fixed disks until well into the days of Windows 7 and SATA. The exception would be logical …