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Re:Windows 3.x looks for 3 occurrences of “CON” 59 bytes apart by interfixus on Sunday June 30, 2019 @12:12AM (#20316283)
Ran a fair bit of Windows 95 back in the day, and a bit of 98 before ditching and going all-out Linux. Did weird shit to those systems, had my liberal share of blue screens and reboots and facepalms and shouting at my CRT. Also frequent reinstalls because things inevitably grew crufty and polluted beyond repair. But these were planned and deliberate. I never once had a system die on me.
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Re:Windows 3.x looks for 3 occurrences of “CON” 59 bytes apart by Spooky23 on Sunday June 30, 2019 @02:14AM (#20316658)
You probably, by luck or design, bought decent gear.

The biggest killer of windows systems was drivers and bad hardware.

The average punter bought some garbage device at retail and plugged in his software modem, software printer, and god knows what kind of software. Those boxes died.

Enterprise software was usually even worse, as companies were uniquely unskilled to produce it.

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Re:Windows 3.x looks for 3 occurrences of “CON” 59 bytes apart by ncmncm on Sunday June 30, 2019 @03:38AM (#20316919)
"Crufty and polluted beyond repair"? But still booted? Pro-active maintenance must have intervened before the fatal rot.
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