It feels so nostalgic. I started using the Computer even since Windows 95 was launched. I first tried installing the Windows 98 on my PC. Man, I really appreciate this guy's patience.
Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)
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Re: Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can't do it with this level of preciseness in the Mac family at least. Between OS X, probably as long as you're not on non-intel processors. Like other commenter said, Windows/MS really goes all the way for backwards compatibility.
You can take a G3 from Mac OS 7.1.2 (version which added PowerPC support) all the way to 10.4, which would take you from 1997 to 2005. I haven't done it, but I've read that getting 10.4 requires some finagling to achieve, so the last supported install you could do would be 10.3.9
IIRC the minimum OS for a G3 was actually 8.something. (Apple generally doesn't/didn't support down-level OSes on their hardware.)
Also the settings would have only been preserved in Classic, but that's to be expected I guess.
Re: Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)
#83Am I the only one that noticed that his account username in Windows 2000 was 'twatface'?
Oh, I noticed and I loled. Regardless, pretty interesting talk and at least he has a humor with his account names.
I'm glad the XP team fixed Doom 2.
Re: Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
When it comes to viability as an infrastructure for business, downwards compatibility clearly trumps rapid development. The same can be seen with Java: having all the shiny, fashionable features the tech geek blogs are abuzz with may be nice... but having old, boring, clunky, uncool software that your business depends on continue to work is far, far more valuable.
While this is true, there is certainly a point where backward compatibility becomes a bit absurd. I'd personally peg it around the 15-year mark.
Absurd, and extremely profitable for the vendor which provides it. IBM mainframes can run binaries that are nearly 45 years old for example.
Re: Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had no idea. We ought to set up a donation drive. edit: I was not being sarcastic. I wouldn't mind chipping a few bucks if a hat is going around.
I thought it a good idea. His name is Peter Tattam (I did some google-leg-work to find it). His site is at http://petertattam.com/ . I found his name via a report at http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.40.... If this is the guy, what should we do? Should somebody ask him what he would like?
yep. I'm still around. I live a quiet existence in not so sunny Hobart, Tasmania. Most unusual request - still thinking about it. Donations willingly accepted - just trying to think what kind of cool thing to provide in return for the generous donations.
Re: Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)
#86When people wonder why Windows is so big and seemingly complex, and why it still uses stupid things like a registry, this is why. Microsoft deserves accolades for maintaining compatibility on this scale, while still working on just about any combination of hardware under the sun. I'm sure they would have loved to be able to do what Apple did with OSX, but there are things you can pull off with 3% market share that are completely out of the question with 95%.
Re: Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)
#87Microsoft first introduced Windows 1.0 on November 20, 1985. Since the introduction of Windows the operating system has dominated personal computers ever since.
Not to be pedantic, but I don't seem to recall Windows "dominating" anything until version 3.1 came out. At that time, you still had a lot of software running in text mode, or firing up its own graphical environment from DOS. Berkeley Softworks' GeoWorks was out, then, too, and looking like pretty decent competition at the time. Windows' ultimate dominance may have been inevitable, but I don't recall it looking that way before '92.
Re: Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had no idea. We ought to set up a donation drive. edit: I was not being sarcastic. I wouldn't mind chipping a few bucks if a hat is going around.
I thought it a good idea. His name is Peter Tattam (I did some google-leg-work to find it). His site is at http://petertattam.com/ . I found his name via a report at http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.40.... If this is the guy, what should we do? Should somebody ask him what he would like?
OK, he's set up a paypal account (payments@petertattam.com)
I've posted a HN ditty:
Re: Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)
#89God, 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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Re: Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
I thought it a good idea. His name is Peter Tattam (I did some google-leg-work to find it). His site is at http://petertattam.com/ . I found his name via a report at http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.40.... If this is the guy, what should we do? Should somebody ask him what he would like?
yep. I'm still around. I live a quiet existence in not so sunny Hobart, Tasmania. Most unusual request - still thinking about it. Donations willingly accepted - just trying to think what kind of cool thing to provide in return for the generous donations.
When I was studying Computing at Tas Uni back in the mid 00s, they still mentioned Trumpet Winsock as their big success story. You should be proud of the impression you've left.
(Though now I think about it, were they annoyed at the commercialisation of a piece of research? Being a Uni, probably. Either way, you've left an impression!)