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0 pointsdeelly2y ago0 comments

> Windows couldn't run for 2 hours without crashing every so often.

I`m really curious, which version of Windows you mean?

Because I don't remember this on win 3.11, win XP, win 95, etc. etc. Of course there sometimes HW/drivers issue, sometime some programs corrupt system files, etc. etc. But crashing every so often.. thats strange.

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bayindirh2y ago

Windows 95 and 98 loved to crash because a fly at the other corner of the room moved an atom which hurt the OS' feelings momentarily.

Ran out of memory? BAM. An official driver from Intel or nVidia or ATI did something slightly off-time because silicon decided to wait a clock for something, BAM. You had a professional capture card with high bandwidth for that time, and you wanted to capture a video, BAM.

A blue screen because of a spinlock access violation, a Windows bundled driver, or any high-end software was common back in these days.

NovaDudely2y ago

Oh yeah it did. The amount of times when you are writing something in Word, then figure it has been 15 minutes, I should save. Only to move the mouse to the save icon only to have the entire system just stop. No error just a total lock.

This is why you can tell if people grew up in that era, you have muscle memeoy of CRTL + S every few minutes burned into your soul.

bayindirh2y ago

> you have muscle memeoy of CRTL + S every few minutes burned into your soul.

I'm honestly afraid that my child will born with it and do that pinky-midfinger combo on air like playing air guitar on day 1.

smcl2y ago

I didn't quite suffer from anything quite this severe, but Windows PCs definitely needed a restart once a day for sure. The weird one for me was installing new software requiring a restart. Some applications would insist on it, presenting you with a modal saying something like "Your computer will now be restarted, save your work and click the Ok button"

lasereyes1362y ago

Windows NT 3.51 was a big milestone in terms of stability. Windows NT 4 got even better from a stability point of view. I can't remember the last time I got a Windows blue screen of death when it used to be common to see one but on a decreasing basis as new versions of Windows came out.

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bayindirh2y ago

Windows 95 and 98 loved to crash because a fly at the other corner of the room moved an atom which hurt the OS' feelings momentarily.

A blue screen because of a spinlock access violation, a Windows bundled driver, or any high-end software was common back in these days.

NovaDudely2y ago

This is why you can tell if people grew up in that era, you have muscle memeoy of CRTL + S every few minutes burned into your soul.

bayindirh2y ago

> you have muscle memeoy of CRTL + S every few minutes burned into your soul.

I'm honestly afraid that my child will born with it and do that pinky-midfinger combo on air like playing air guitar on day 1.

smcl2y ago

lasereyes1362y ago

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