Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 09:13:48 -0400 From: "MikeM" <MyRaQ@mgm51.com> To: _pppp@mail.ru Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Message-ID: <200208260913480431.0442A8DD@sentry.24cl.com> In-Reply-To: <3D69DB91.2090607@mail.ru> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020824085010.00a8b118@popmail.eznet.net> <007c01c24b71$e4033bc0$0200000a@perimeter.co.za> <200208241106400665.006CE477@sentry.24cl.com> <3D69DB91.2090607@mail.ru>
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On 8/26/02 at 11:41 AM dima wrote: >> I don't know if I'd go as far as your last sentence. I made the >> transition from Windows to FreeBSD a year ago (after nearly 20 years of >> using and admin'ing Windows). >well, windows only exists since 1985. i don't think you ever used a >version of ms windows before 3.x, especially 1.x one since it couldn't >work more than half an hour straight :) ============= Before the GUI version of Windows, there was a character-based version: - the first version with tiled "windows", it was released circa 1982 or 1983 (my memory is hazy). I was at the Plaza Hotel in NYC for the official announcement. - the next version of character-based windows had cascading and overlapping windows. That was circa 1983-84. I had been using Windows since then. But enough of this off-topic history.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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