'My favorite platform' debate (was: Rack Mount Servers)

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Tue Aug 13 06:57:37 EDT 2002


Early implementations of MS Windows were horrible. 3.1 was the first 
version of Windows that had any merit at all.
All GUIs demand much from hardware. All are insatiable. 
"Brenda A. Bell" wrote:

> Since the introduction of Win95, absolutely... I was more thinking about
> the early 90's when Windows 2 and 3.1 demanded more from the hardware
> and everytime it got more, it was never enough... then comes NT which
> requires even more because its intended use is a business environment...
> none of these were really targetted for gaming platforms, but I believe
> their quickly increasing resource requirements paved the way.

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