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Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)

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Re: Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)

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Post by jacques_chester »

God, the memories. I remember booting up Windows 95 for the first time -- I was so stoked. Everything was so new and smooth and perfect.

Plus -- and this is the important thing -- PPP worked much, much better than 3.1 + trumpet winsock.

Some time around 98SE I was dual booting into BeOS, which was so damn fast it wasn't funny. But it wasn't to be.

And I remember browbeating Red Hat 3 into connecting to the internet as well.

Re: Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)

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Post by warfangle »

megaframe wrote: post #4

It's like taking every upgrade I've ever done with Windows and condensing it down to 9:49 (omit the various reinstalls)

I never used the upgrade option. I'd always get a new hard drive with my upgrade (to get OEM price) and install clean, usually using the original hard drive as a slave. The next cycle that hard drive would become an archive on the new slave.

I have backed up files from 1996 on my home desktop.

Re: Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)

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Post by mey »

potatolicious wrote: post #5

Impressive, but I have to wonder how many compromises had to be made, and advancements abandoned, to keep apps like Reversi and Dosshell all the way up through Win7...

It's what their client base demands. It's part of their success. Think how many internal tools are relying on compatibility since they would be too expensive to rewrite. (I'm looking at you VB6)

You may be interested in this technet article on the concept of Shims http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd837644(WS.10).a...

Not only can you make your own, Windows ships shims with each release to provide compatibility support with popular user applications.

Edit: fixed some grammar.

Re: Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)

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Post by pragmatic »

potatolicious wrote: post #5

Impressive, but I have to wonder how many compromises had to be made, and advancements abandoned, to keep apps like Reversi and Dosshell all the way up through Win7...

Good point, but consider all those old business apps that can continue to run in small companies all over the world.

Re: Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)

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Post by nailer »

jacques_chester wrote: post #12

God, the memories. I remember booting up Windows 95 for the first time -- I was so stoked. Everything was so new and smooth and perfect. Plus -- and this is the important thing -- PPP worked much, much better than 3.1 + trumpet winsock. Some time around 98SE I was dual booting into BeOS, which was so damn fast it wasn't funny. But it wasn't to be. And I remember browbeating Red Hat 3 into connecting to the internet a…

Weirdly enough my uncle actually knew the guy who wrote Trumpet Winsock.

He says he got burnt by piracy fairly badly: computer magazines were including the full version of his app on their cover disks all over the world, ISPs were handing his app to their customers, and his company was too small to stop them.

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