File extensions, was: Re: [Coco] Portal-9 bug report

[Ward Griffiths]

On Monday 18 October 2004 10:05 pm, Robert Emery wrote:
> > > > Windows 95 borrowed a great deal of the Mac approach, and it
> > > > succeeded in how incredibly Win95 took off in comparison to
> > > > Win3.1.
> > >
> > > That's mainly because you could install 95 without knowing DOS.
> >
> > Actually, rather few "normal" users ever install Win 95 or any of
> > its successors.  They just buy preinstalled machines.  I'd say
> > maybe 10%, tops, can install from scratch.
>
> maybe now, what about when Win95 came out? PC's were not so prolific
> at that time.

In the US, PCs were quite prolific by then.  Sales have been sort of 
flattening ever since, mostly replacements and getting the latest and 
greatest for the kids, throwing away anything more than a few years 
old.

Hell, this main machine of mine is over 4.5 years old.  Just can't find 
a good excuse to replace this old dual P3/500 box, have to wait till it 
breaks while Mi Esposa routes through it with a laptop theoretically 
twice or more as fast (Compaq Presario, 2.something Ghz), but her 
machine is crippled by 'doze Xtra Pathetic (Homealone) while I use a 
real operating system, that's a piece of cake to install on bare metal, 
something very few can do with 'doze (I've had to install 'doze on bare 
metal too many times, it's not worth it, so I always insist on payment 
up front).

Fortunately, I've got even older boxen to play with.  Mod 1.  Mod 2.  
Mod 4.  Mod 12.  T6kHD.  Several Mod 100s.  At least one of every 
generation of Coco (from 4k CC1 to 512k CC3 stock, haven't tried a 
major memory upgrade on a CC3 yet).  Plus a few other machines (I'm 
very fond of the AT&T Unix PC, whether 7300 or 3B1).
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You had to admire the way perfectly innocent words were mugged, ravaged,
stripped of all true meaning and decency, and then sent to walk the
gutter for Reacher Gilt, although "synergistically" had probably been a
whore from the start.                 -- Terry Pratchett, _Going Postal_