--- Eric McCann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It should (under other names, I think - Klondike? Or > is that another for > the original solitaire...) be on any "set" of > solitaire games. It's > definately not a Windows exclusive. <g>
Klondike is a different game than Free Cell. Klondike is one of, if not the simplest solitaire card games. > (Trivia bit - it was originally included as a "test" > program with Win32s, > an addon for Windows 3.1 to let it run "sort of" > 32-bit programs.... if > Freecell ran, it was installed properly.) Most of the PC software released from late 1994 through around 1996 or 97 that said it worked with Windows 3.1x or 95 used Win32s to run on 3.1x. Microsoft originally planned to make the version of Windows after WFWG 3.11 more of a 32bit extension rather than an all out replacement. As development progressed MS decided that to better support 32bit apps they had to start over mostly from scratch. WinG, which is used by most apps that use Win32s, was a precursor to DirectX. Microsoft's switch from Win 3.1x to Win 95 was just as full of questions about whether or not to keep backwards compatability as Apple's switch to the PowerPC. Both companies decided to keep compatability with the old applications. IMHO it was a move that hurt both more than it helped. "Breaking the chain" may have created a drop in the short term market, but with a fully PPC native Mac OS and a fully 32bit Windows, both would've had even better systems than System 7.5 and Windows 95. Microsoft should've cast off 16bits when the 386 CPU came out. It would've been far easier then with millions and millions fewer PC systems out there running "legacy" software to replace. Perhaps they saw the "failure" of IBM's attempt to drastically alter the PC hardware platform with their MCA bus that wasn't backwards compatable as a reason to not kick 68k or 16bit code out of the scene. The failure of MCA was due to IBM's greed at trying to create a closed (or expensive to license) system, not due to any resistance to it's superiority over ISA. The rest of the industry reacted by creating their own 32bit, software configured bus called EISA that was also compatable with ISA cards in the same slot. Then Intel came along with their own 32bit bus called PCI which didn't require special boot disks or driver changes just to add, remove or even move cards from one slot to another. It didn't matter that PCI wouldn't accept an ISA card, the license for PCI was cheap and the performance was far enough in advance of ISA/MCA/EISA/VESA-LB that the peripheral companies jumped on. (Unlike when they balked at IBM's attempt to boost ISA from 8Mhz to 10Mhz!) Apple has benefited from the fractious and vast PC market. They've picked up USB, PCI, IDE, AGP from it while providing IEEE1394 "Fire Wire" and a few other things that the PC side has adopted. Apple did try to pull an IBM like stunt by originally demanding a $1 per controller (or was it per port?) royalty on Fire Wire. With production quantities in the millions, the PC industry balked at that as much as they did at IBM's license fees for MCA! I've never heard how that was settled since you can hardly buy a new PC without Fire Wire now. ===== "The earth swarms with inhabitants. Why then should nature, which is fruitful to an excess here, be so very barren in the rest of the planets?" Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686 [EMAIL PROTECTED] My ICQ# 16024947 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
