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Re: OT: Why is C so popular?



On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 06:01:59 -0500
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 23:52, Steve Lamb wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 13:57:50 +1000
> > bob parker <bob_parker@dodo.com.au> wrote:
> > > If you are using some graphical interface it just isn't faster at all.
> > > Dos based programs were though, we had to get into Pentiums before
                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > Windows proggies were up to what we had on the 286.
                            
> >     Windows, yes.  OS/2 v3.0 and higher, no. 
 
> Could Warp run on the 286?  I don't think so.  It definitely ran
> fine on my 486DX/33 w/ 8MB RAM and et4000/w32 video card.
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    I never said 286.  I merely refuted that it didn't take until Pentiums for
OS/2, a GUI environment, to have an interface 'up to what we had on the 286.' 
My first OS/2 was a 386SX/16 w/8Mb of RAM.  I had been running DesqVIEW on it
before OS/2 came around and far preferred the switch to OS/2.  Not that
DesqVIEW was all that bad, really.  :)

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