On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 02:24:49AM -0400, Scott Holder wrote:

> Actually, I got bored and installed WFW 3.11 on an older PC I had lying 
> around, and it works remarkably well. Calmira gives it some of the 
> functionality that's nice like a better desktop metaphor and a taskbar.

I know people who would like that, as they still run some old
industrial-strength PC machines with Win 3.1.

> As much maligned as it is, I'd say WFW 3.11 was probably the pinaccle of 
> Windows development, and it went downhill from there.

No kidding.  Same for NT: everything after 3.51, which was fairly stable,
went downhill.

It's all features and eye-candy, and lock-in, not engineering.


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