[Coco] [OT} OS-9 on Raspberry Pi

[John Guin]

It's not a customer issue.  It was (allegedly) caused by developers back in the day doing something like:

If (getWindowsVersion.contains("Windows9*"):
	//then assume windows 95/98 ....

So calling a Windows version "Windows 9" would break a lot of old software.

PC World - among many others - ran an article on this: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2690724/why-windows-10-isnt-named-9-windows-95-legacy-code.html

Tagging this as off topic since we are off into a Windows conversation,
John

-----Original Message-----
From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Brian Blake
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 4:04 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] OS-9 on Raspberry Pi

I disagree completely, Chris. Though it's hard to tell of your message had any sarcasm or not. I've worked with a lot of people who were well aware of the Windows version they were using. In fact, I'd say maybe less than two percent of the customers I've had to deal with didn't know what Windows version they were on. And I do go back to the DOS days.

That's not to say Windows users are anywhere near as aware of their systems the way most Linux user are. But a large majority aren't totally clueless.

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On Feb 3, 2015 6:31 PM, "Christopher R. Hawks" <chawks at dls.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 03 Feb 2015 14:26:11 -0500
> Al Hartman <alhartman6 at optonline.net> wrote:
>
> > Actually, Windows 2000 was quite good. Windows ME was the "bad"
> > release, but it worked fine for me.
> >
> > Someone else said Windows 9 was skipped. It wasn't. It was renamed 
> > Windows 10, because version checks for the Windows version would see 
> > Windows 9 as Windows 95/98.
> >
> > Windows 8.1 with the free "Classic Shell" software works well.
> >
> > -[ Al ]-
>
> No Al, 'Cause the average Winder$ user couldn't tell if it was older 
> or newer than 95/98.
>
>         That's why Win95 was introduced. The average user couldn't 
> tell if Win 3, Win 3.1, or Win 3.1.1 was the newest, so the next 
> version was Win95 (that came out in 1996).
>
>
> > -----Original Message----- From: Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)
> >
> > It's a cycle. MS always do a good and a bad OS.
> >
> > NT - good
> > 2000 - bad
> > XP - good
> > Vista (evil)
> > Win7 (great)
> > Win8 (horrible)
> >
> > So Win10 is expected to be fine :)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Luis Felipe Antoniosi
> >
>
>
>
>
> Christopher R. Hawks
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