07-26-14 11:44 Alan Zisman wrote to TOM WALKER about Windows 8 tiles look like   
      
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    AZ> On 2014-07-26, 4:40 AM, TOM WALKER -> ERIC OULASHIN wrote:   
    EO>> Just for humor - Windows 8's tiled interface looks very similar to   
    TW> Windows 1   
    EO>> (1985):   
    EO>> http://bit.ly/WNzMU0   
      
    TW> I never saw Windows 1.0 but understand it was one of the biggest   
    TW> disasters in Computer History.   
    TW> ---   
    AZ> Not necessarily a disaster - a necessary piece in an evolution   
    AZ> of PC hardware and software.   
      
    AZ> I ran it for a while on a 26 lb 'luggable' portable PC with 512   
    AZ> kb RAM, two 5 1/4" floppy disk drives, and a 20 MB hard drive.   
    AZ> 8" green on black CRT screen.   
      
    AZ> It was forced by the hardware of the day (remember, it was   
    AZ> released in Nov 1985 - significantly late) to be able to run on   
    AZ> a system with 256 kb of memory and two floppy disk drives - no   
    AZ> hard drive. On that minimal system, performance was (no   
    AZ> surprise!) poor... non-graphical multitasking systems offered   
    AZ> better performance, but Windows 1.0 showed the possibilities of   
    AZ> bit-mapped screens and multitasking on PC hardware.   
      
    AZ> (It also showed that Microsoft had no sense of graphical   
    AZ> design, and was prone to release software late).   
      
   Howdy! Alan,   
      
   I thought Microsoft was prone to release OS software too Early.   
      
   Didn't they give the Windows 95 OS a Name and felt rushed to get it out   
   the door before the end of 1995?   
   As in the August 1995 Release of Windows 95 when it wasn't really ready   
   yet for use on any computers because they knew it was gonna need   
   Updates to sections of the OS.   
      
   My Opinion.   
      
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