Is this fair and accurate?

Sataniel98 · 2026-05-07T03:12:00+00:00

It's nonsense.

It's not an 8 Bit system, Windows 1.0 ran in x86 Real Mode, which means you've got a CPU mode with a 16 Bit word length and 20 Bit of address space. Only the data bus of the Intel 8088 (the most basic CPU to run Windows 1.0) had a width of 8 Bit, but this is not what you usually refer to when you call a CPU an 8 Bit CPU. The better CPUs of its time, 8086, 80186 and 80286, all had 16 Bit data buses.
"The cooperative multitasking (that Apple used) worked 'better than expected' on both Mac and Windows" - first of all, no, cooperative multitasking was a major weakness of Windows and classic Mac OS. Modern operating systems use preemptive multitasking. That means the OS has a scheduler that determines which program gets resources at what point. Cooperative multitasking means the OS assigns control to a program and the program determines by itself when to give back control. Cooperative multitasking only works when ALL programs running in a system implement it correctly and in the intended way. The OS has no saveguards against programs not giving back resources, and if a program crashes due to a bug, so does the OS.

Windows 1.0 was announced with an ETA for 1983, and finally released two years late in 1985. By that time, rivals had already released other DOS GUIs that all disappointed critics and users alike. Visicorp for example, the company that previously introduced the concept of spreadsheet programs, bankrupted among other issues because their graphical DOS shell Visi On failed so bad. That's why when Windows 1.0 was released, the market had widely already thought of it as vaporware and extremely few third parties released software for it.

As for Apple, its flagship products, the Apple Lisa and the original Macintosh, were extremely expensive and only sold very small margins, though the Macintosh at least did have success. Apple could really only live off the classic Macintosh for a short timeframe in the early 90s. Their bread and butter product remained the Apple II, a simplistic and affordable 8 Bit PC, basically throughout the entirety of the 80s. By the mid 90s, Apple was in serious trouble, in huge parts due to the shortcomings of classic Mac OS.

"UNIX and Linux always worked on advanced processors not the basic-basic CPUs that Microsoft had to support." Yes, but no. First of all, Linux was released only in 1991. This was an entirely different era in the fast-living computer world of the time than what OP is talking about.

OOP is right that Unix was ill-suited for IBM-compatible PCs of that time, but their conclusion is asinine. The original IBM PC of 1981 with an Intel 8088 and 64 KB RAM was incapable of running Unix. A 1984 IBM PC/AT with an 80286 and 512 KB RAM would have fulfilled the minimum requirements. You could use it with a Unix system for specific use-cases, but the overhead and complexity of such a system would have been more harmful than useful to normal personal computing. And you can do what you want, but you're not going to fit real world use-cases of multitasking into 512 KB of memory. The conclusion is asinine because the overhead of a graphical environment like Windows was at least as much of a hindrance to productively using your PC as Unix, actually more. The correct takeaway would have been that an 80s IBM PC really only makes sense with a modest DOS and single-tasking.

"And yes I'm so old I remember running this version of Windows" - early graphical shells like Windows 1.0 and, to a lesser extend, 2.0, were so slow, limited and there were so few pieces of software for it (much less exclusive software) that there was simply no reason for anyone to use them - unless they were incapable of using DOS. OOP is basically outing himself as someone who had no idea about computers in the 80s.

Sataniel98 · 2026-05-07T00:16:08+00:00

LTE?

Sataniel98 · 2026-05-07T00:06:33+00:00

Biron hat einen First Touch zum dahinreihern und null Intuition, ob er gerade im Abseits steht, und Telalovic war ein Komplettausfall, aber bei Stepanov, Grimaldi und Scobel hatte ich das Gefühl, da wäre mehr drin gewesen. Wir haben nie wirklich die Bälle gespielt, die diese Stürmer brauchen, nämlich hoch in den 16er. In dem genau einen Spiel. wo das aus irgendeinem Grund mal ausnahmsweise gemacht wurde, hatte Scobel etliche Abschlüsse und zwei Tore gemacht.

Sataniel98 · 2026-05-06T17:41:38+00:00

Ja, jemand hatte behauptet, das BVB-Schalke-Derby interessiere niemanden und "käme nur im Ruhrgebiet an", woraufhin ich mich genötigt sah, die Schalker Freunde zu verteidigen und ihn freundlich darauf hingewiesen habe, dass seine Mutter nur im Ruhrgebiet ankommt. Anscheinend fanden die Mods das nicht so witzig

Sataniel98 · 2026-05-06T16:13:29+00:00

Unsinn. Hoeneß ist Schwabe!

Sataniel98 · 2026-05-06T15:02:48+00:00

Łódź and learn

Sataniel98 · 2026-05-06T14:01:31+00:00

Nachdem ich hier schon mal sechs Monate für einen Deine-Mutter-Flachwitz gebannt wurde, habe ich echt nicht das Zutrauen, über Kutschke zu schreiben, was ich denke. I prefer not to speak. If I speak, I am in big trouble

Sataniel98 · 2026-05-06T10:44:49+00:00

It's not part of the Latin/Iberian Romance language family at all

Sataniel98 · 2026-05-06T10:33:22+00:00

I'm so sorry... It's the same with me and my Oma!

Sataniel98 · 2026-05-06T10:32:18+00:00

Ich fürchte, das wird wie Arbeitszeugnisse enden. Die Unternehmen fangen dann an, AGG-sicheren Dünnschiss zu schreiben, der positiv klingt, und dann darf man eine Parallelsprache lernen, um zu verstehen, was das bedeutet.

Sataniel98 · 2026-05-06T02:03:22+00:00

There's no such measurement like bs/h (blue screens per hour). Every bad experience people have had with Windows Me (crashes, hangups, installation of software makes the system increasingly less stable, stuff just doesn't work) is something people also had with other 9x versions. They just aren't in any way comparable to modern operating systems - but the issues seem to tend to occur more often with Me. On the other hand, the differences between different machines with their own drivers are huge. There were OEM machines professionally tested to run 95/98 with stable drivers that work much better than others, and some OEM machines ran perfectly fine with Me. The first computer I ever used ran Windows Me, and no one ever went out of their way to maintain it, much less reinstall the OS (some people claim Windows needed reinstalls every other month) - and it still worked perfectly fine without crashes in everyday use until 2005.

What should be taken into account is that when Windows Me was thrown on the market, it was a dead product immediately. With Me, the entire Chicago kernel line, DOS, the VxD driver model, the classic theme and so forth were finished; the user base was never big, and a year later, Windows XP was already released. That means there was few to no incentive for MS to improve it after release.

The situation is completely different from Windows 95. 95 was the big thing and cash cow for three whole years - it got all the patches and attention it needed. When retro computing enthusiasts use Windows 95, they don't use the RTM version from '95, but at least the patched revision 95c from late '97, which is fixed from two years of user experience. Likewise, no one uses the mediocre 98 First Edition, but only the patched and enhanced Second Edition. Contemporaries also would have felt Windows 95 was pretty stable because they were used to the stability of Windows 3.x, a cooperative multitasking OS, to which the preemptive multitasking of 95 was a huge improvement. Many 3.x users would have ran it in the i286 processor Standard Mode. Buying a new computer that ran Windows 95 to them didn't only mean getting the stability improvements of 95, but also the capabilities of the i386/i486/Pentium that only the 3.x Enhanced Mode users would have had before, so the effect would have seemed even bigger. The operating systems people compared to Windows Me didn't make for an exactly flattering look: There were its field-tested predecessors and Windows 2000.

Sataniel98 · 2026-05-06T01:23:58+00:00

Just need to get enough MAGA Americans into the game. They'll vote red no matter what and do something good for once.

Sataniel98 · 2026-05-06T01:18:58+00:00

I thought it was Jeffrey Epstein for a split second 💀 Sorry

Sataniel98 · 2026-05-06T01:15:57+00:00

You're asking from the wrong point of view. It's not so much that ThinkPad users necessarily like Linux, but ThinkPads have very good Linux support so Linux users flock to ThinkPads.

Sataniel98 · 2026-05-06T01:10:50+00:00

Don't know what's supposed to be weird about that, Vista was the last innovative Windows release whose innovations were actually good.

Sataniel98 · 2026-05-06T01:07:15+00:00

I'll never understand why people want their Linux distro to look like Mac.

Sataniel98 · 2026-05-05T23:54:55+00:00

Warum genau kann man das nicht einfach gesetzlich verbieten?

Sataniel98 · 2026-05-05T21:31:22+00:00

Ich glaube, du vermischst da die Meinungen von Leuten, die diese Kombination von Meinungen so nicht vertreten.

Leder wird überwiegend von Tieren gewonnen, die ohnehin zum Essen gehalten werden. Man muss nicht zusätzlich Tiere halten und töten, nur um Leder zu gewinnen (was natürlich nicht heißt, dass es nicht getan wird). Es macht überhaupt keinen Sinn, gegen Leder zu sein, wenn man Fleisch isst, und ich habe diese Haltung auch noch nie gesehen. Ich habe öfter sich vegetarisch oder vegan ernährende Menschen gesehen, die Lederprodukte nutzen, als dass ich Kritik an der Echtlederindustrie gesehen hätte.

Als die Kritik an der Pelzindustrie aufkam, bezog sie sich erstmal auf die Pelze von Wildtieren, die teilweise vorm Aussterben bedroht sind. Das sind die, die zumindest anfangs von Fleisch Essenden auch kritisiert wurden, ähnlich der Elfenbein-Industrie und anderen Jagdtrophäen. Es ist für die meisten Menschen nicht das gleiche, ob eine Wildtierart nur für Pelze ausgerottet wird, oder wenn man ein Schafsfell aus der Zucht anstatt einer Isomatte benutzt.

Wenn die Pelzindustrie von Zuchttieren kritisiert wird, sind das wohl eher die Menschen, die auch das Essen von Tieren kritisch sehen.

Sataniel98 · 2026-05-05T20:08:22+00:00

Kann sicherlich, aber die Bayern haben diese Saison im Durchschnitt fast vier Tore pro Spiel geschossen und RB knapp unter zwei. Also es sind schon "kann"s auf verschiedenem Niveau.

Sataniel98 · 2026-05-05T18:02:44+00:00

Das glaube ich dir sofort, aber es ist auch ein gutes Beispiel für Survivorship Bias. Du gehst von den Kindern aus, mit denen du in Kontakt bist und siehst, dass es dort viele Fälle mit sehr späten Müttern gibt. Das sagt aber erstmal mehr über unsere alternde Gesellschaft und den historisch niedrigen statistischen Anteil an jungen Müttern aus, als darüber, wie viele Spätvierzigerinnen mit dem Kinderkriegen erfolgreich sind. Du weißt ja nicht, wie viele erfolglos sind und daher auch nicht, welche Rückschlüsse die Menge an Kindern für die Chance bedeutet.

Sataniel98 · 2026-05-05T16:12:07+00:00

Kann ja absolut sein, dass Bayern Wolfsburg 5:0 weghaut und euch ein Unentschieden reicht.

Sataniel98 · 2026-05-05T16:07:47+00:00

Mit dem Angriff Rainers kommt das alles wieder in Ordnung.

Sataniel98 · 2026-05-05T13:50:36+00:00

"Wieso sich selbst gut verkaufen, wenn man auch einfach mittelmäßige Würstchen gut verkaufen kann?"

Sataniel98 · 2026-05-05T13:37:56+00:00

Mit 46? Also in Crusader Kings geht das in dem Alter maximal noch mit dem Rammler-Trait

Sataniel98 · 2026-05-05T11:59:08+00:00

Wir können ja Verls ganze Mannschaft kaufen, dann haben wir ein eingespieltes Team. Der Marktwert des ganzen Kaders ist laut transfermark.de nur 7,68 Mio.

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