Re: 32 bit Win95 restored my breath.

rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

On Thu, 07 Mar 2024 15:39:17 -0800 (Seattle), Relf wrote:
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Like an EpiPen hit, 32 bit Win95 restored my breath.

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It wasn't all that bad compared to NT 4.0. There some moral in the story when the cheap consumer OS is more stable than the 'enterprise' OS.

Heh, early on I was working with this guy who didn't understand
that you create a resource and then you make sure it is deleted.
Of course his code would go belly up on Win 95.
His solution? Convince management and "the customer" to go with
Win NT.
This was the guy who drove me to take antidepressants.
He would take his shoes and socks off in the office and pare his toenails.
He would ask me if I wanted to hear "some Rush".  Not the rock group, but
that bellowing bloviator.
Mostly, though, I had good teammates during my career.

It was educational. Rather than dealing with a SMTP server I leveraged Outlook's COM interface to piggyback on the MAPI layer. When it hit testing I realized the Outlook had absolutely fucking nothing to do with Outlook Express. The gomers thought they were getting a crippled version of Outlook.

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