jlf1961 -> RE: I Admit It I........ (8/26/2017 9:43:25 AM)
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ORIGINAL: WhoreMods To be honest, I was more hoping that she'd take the warning. (And Windows 7 wasn't that bad.) Want to hear a real fucked up fact? When Bill Gates was in college, he developed an OS that basically is everything that windows 10 wants to be, and designed it to run on the home systems of the day. It was stable, adaptable to any hardware environment and took up a lot less room on hard drives than the current monsters, and it was so simple as to be idiot proof. He tried to market it, thinking that he could make enough money to pay for his college and also get rid of DOS as a mainstay of computer operation. It failed miserably, not because it did not work, but because the software firms and computer manufacturers at the time felt that since it was so simple and so good, there had to be a flaw, and because surveys of computer users showed that no one would trust it due to its simplicity. So, Bill Gates went back and came up with windows, and purposely designed it to be proprietary and complicated, because, to quote him, "if they want complicated, I will give them complicated." And he made a fortune with it. He also did not do a damn thing to destroy, hide or make his original operating system vanish into the trash can of history. It is still out there, and with a lot of searching you can find it on a few download sites. And, strangely enough, any product that requires windows OS to run, will run on the damn thing with a few minor tweaks in the config and ini files. And, funny thing, when a new windows based ap hits the market, the necessary changes that would need to be made pop up on obscure software sites around the net, sometimes before the new ap hits the market. And this is pre Altair basic.
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