As someone who grew up with Apple computers, yes the overall fit/integration was not as good as Apple's but it did have some semblance of preemptive multitasking (which System7/8 did not have).
The "UI that runs on DOS" was a feature not a bug for legacy game/software support.
> I mean that's some rose-tinted shit if I ever heard it,
I was trying to figure out how to express myself, but I think you got it.
98SE was still pretty bad because pre-NTFS filesystems would decay over time (of course so would ext2, but linux generally crashed a lot less).
Re:Apple Q4/2022
by insane_dreamer on Friday October 28, 2022 @04:20PM
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XP, yes. 95, not so much.
I mean that's some rose-tinted shit if I ever heard it, 95 especially. 98 OSR2 improved quite a bit on the situation, but I don't recall having a great time with 95. It was still a glorified DOS extender in many ways, often slow to start up and shutdown, PC hardware and drivers were a mess and system stability therefore poor. This was right at the beginning of the concept of "PnP" in the PC world (plug and play) and it was a cruel joke most of time.
Windows 2000 being from the NT line was peak Windows in many ways. I resisted XP but it was ok for most people admittedly.