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  1. Re:Macintosh philosophy by thehamster · · Score: 3, Informative · on ROX Desktop Update

    The links:

    RISC OS 3.11 The one every british schoolchild will be familiar with...

    RISC OS 4 The current version, with fancier marble look.

  2. Re:Macintosh philosophy by thehamster · · Score: 3, Informative · on ROX Desktop Update

    The links:

    RISC OS 3.11 The one every british schoolchild will be familiar with...

    RISC OS 4 The current version, with fancier marble look.

  3. Re:History of Computer Science by Alien54 · · Score: 1, Offtopic · on Turing Award Goes to Pioneers of Object-Oriented Programming
    Why wouldn't computer students have to write a program or two on punch cards and feed them to an old CDC pile of blinkenlights, and also toggle-in a bootstrap loader on a PDP-8 front-panel?

    on the other hand, MS will never release the code to Win 1.0 to the public domain. (even though you can still see what it looked like) or read the original article in Byte that announced it.

    I like this line describing Windows: "Microsoft Windows is an installable device driver under MS-DOS 2.0 using ordinary MS-DOS files." Look how far they have come [smile]

  4. Re:History of Computer Science by Alien54 · · Score: 1, Offtopic · on Turing Award Goes to Pioneers of Object-Oriented Programming
    Why wouldn't computer students have to write a program or two on punch cards and feed them to an old CDC pile of blinkenlights, and also toggle-in a bootstrap loader on a PDP-8 front-panel?

    on the other hand, MS will never release the code to Win 1.0 to the public domain. (even though you can still see what it looked like) or read the original article in Byte that announced it.

    I like this line describing Windows: "Microsoft Windows is an installable device driver under MS-DOS 2.0 using ordinary MS-DOS files." Look how far they have come [smile]

  5. DESQview/X ran Win3.1 by castlan · · Score: 1 · on DesqView/X: Night of the Living Dead Codebases

    According to this screenshot DESKview/X ran Win3.1 Apps in a rooted style, with the win3.1 Desktop in one Window on the X server.

  6. This wouldn't help WINE by RevAaron · · Score: 5, Informative · on DesqView/X: Night of the Living Dead Codebases
    I used to use DV and DV/X through through the eras of DOS, Win 3.1 and Win95. All of my apps were DOS-based, but I still wanted to multitask. That, and DV was able to do something very important for me as a BBSer that Win 3.1 couldn't- have a ZModem download in ProComm+ going in the background while actually *doing* something else.So, yes, I have some experience.

    In any case, the release of DV/X wouldn't help WINE in any way, really. DV DV/X allowed you to run Win 3.1 apps in the same way that you can run Classic Mac OS apps in Mac OS X, or that OS/2 2.1 could run Win 3.1 apps. Win 3.1 ran in a little box all to itself. It ran the entire Win 3.1 OE, not implemented the API (as Wine and Odin do). You can see a screenshot of this here.

    DV/X was pretty cool, esp. for a DOS user in those days, but it isn't really relevant anymore. I could see people with old DOS machines who wanted the binaries, that makes perfect sense. However, there's really nothing to be gained from the release of the source. It's not like someone can port it to MS-DOS/PowerPC. ;)