Re: Seeing VERSIONINFO under Vista?

"Daniel James" <wastebasket@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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However, from a marketing POV it was brilliant. NT had a (completely
erroneous) reputation for being "difficult" and would have been very
difficult
to sell to home users. It was '95 that weaned most people off Win16 and
onto
Win32, while still supporting old DOS apps like games. Without it MS would
have lost quite a lot of ground to OS/2.


Indeed, between NT's lack of "gamability", device drivers, compatibility
with millions of DOS apps, as well as its greater RAM requirements and
overall sluggishness (only NT4 had acceptable performance after the display
driver was moved into Ring 0), the mass audience was barred from using it.
This made Win95 the only game in town. And since Win95 was so much more
stable than Win 3.x and offered true multitasking (threading), it's exactly
what the market needed.

-- David


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