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IceDigger - Feb 2, 2003

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  Myname Feb 2, 2003
Workbench was the standard Amiga OS. The way I remember it, it pretty much invented 'windows' in OS's, but that's probably nowhere near accurate.

I had an Atari STE in those days, so I'm more of a TOS man (insert joke here).

 Quadriflax Feb 2, 2003

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by Myname@Feb. 02 2003, 8:25 pm



XP Service Pack 1.. After the initial teething problems, it's been fantastic. Obviously you need to get rid of most of the crap from the get-go and disable system restore, after that it runs like a dream (well, apart from some Win95 programs anyways).


I've heard many bad things about the system restore slowing everything down. Is it possible to use it manually? Sort of like taking a snapshot of your important files before you alter something? Does disabling this directly effect the "boot to last known good settings" (or whatever it's called) feature? I ask because I use a program called WinRescue98 for Win98 that backs up system files, including the registry, when I run it. I like being able to back things up to when I know they were working.

 cww80 Feb 2, 2003
Windows 98 SE

 Curtis Feb 2, 2003

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by Myname@Feb. 03 2003, 1:56 pm



Workbench was the standard Amiga OS. The way I remember it, it pretty much invented 'windows' in OS's, but that's probably nowhere near accurate.



I had an Atari STE in those days, so I'm more of a TOS man (insert joke here).


Yes, Tape Operating System is possibly the computing world's most illconceived acronym.

 gamefoo21 Feb 2, 2003
i believe you can run system restore manually and if you can't you can just turn it on whenever you need and it will image automatically then just shut it off after you run it for awhile. sorta difficult but oh well. yea and what is xandros? oh and win xp home is like ME evil evil version of Nt 5.1.

 Falstaf Feb 2, 2003
Gotta agree tha XP home is bad. It is the one version of XP I tried. Crashamatic!

Ice posted a link in another thread for Xandros I believe it's-

www.Xandros.com...

I gave it a look and it seems interesting. I'm kind of surprised noone has mentioned Lindows, the linux/windows clone. The Atari OS looked interesting but i believe that Xerox gets the credit for inventing the first windows like graphic interface, along with the mouse. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

 Link Hylia Feb 2, 2003
Windows 98 4.10.1998

works well. sometimes crappy, but usually the stuff I run causes it.

 antime Feb 2, 2003

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by falstaff@Feb. 03 2003, 6:46 am



The Atari OS looked interesting but i believe that Xerox gets the credit for inventing the first windows like graphic interface, along with the mouse.


Yes, a man called Douglas Engelbart... invented the windowed user interface, the mouse, hyperlinking, on-line help and lots of other things that are now inseparable parts of operating systems. Unfortunately for Engelbart, Xerox completely failed to commercially exploit what they had, leaving others to reimplement and reinvent many of the things he demonstrated in 1968.

 Taelon Feb 3, 2003

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by Curtis+Feb. 02 2003, 10:58 pm-->
QUOTE(Curtis @ Feb. 02 2003, 10:58 pm)