> > KEEPING THE DISPLAYS PRETTY WAS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE DATA INTEGRITY!
On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:
> Wow, sounds like Windows!
It is pretty bad when switching to Windoze 3.00 (aka "UAE- Unexpected
Application Error") is a major improvement in data integrity!
According to Microsoft (MS Professional Developer's Conference 8/1991),
getting rid of UAEs was the most important issue for development of
Windows 3.10. Actually, getting rid of UAEs was trivial. They were no
longer unexpected; therefore there were no more UAEs.
That conference was also when MICROS~1 introduced the "flying windows
logo". They thanked the developers for their "enthusiastic acceptance" of
the new logo, in spite of the fact that the MAJORITY of the developers
hated it, and referred to the new logo as the "DRYROT logo" (there were
trailing pixels behind the flying window that were intended to represent
motion, but looked more like the window is falling apart)
The Calculator accessory in Win 3.10 and 3.11 is flawed. Start it up, and
calculate the difference between 3.11 and 3.10 (3.11 - 3.10 = 0 ????)
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Tue Jan 01 2002 - 13:45:06 GMT