🚀 go-pugleaf

The following is perhaps the best summary of the real situation
that I have ever seen. Too bad it in the "Down with Netscape" thread.
I almost missed it, but thanks for the GREAT summary anyhow.

BTW, JUST WAIT till you get yer confidence up and try that game on the
KALI system agenst multiple players on the internet. You are in for
a really special treat.

Don

John Hamilton wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 11 Mar 1997 11:45:02 +0100, otahaljm
> <otah...@no.spam.trick.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
> 
> >You misunderstood me, I didn' change the Win95 config for about 4
> >mounths nor I installed any new program, and 'till two days before 
> >that stange behaviour it worked all very fine and very stable. 
> >really nothing was changed.
> 
> One thing people tend not to understand is ALL computers tend to 
> exhibit unexplained behavior over time. Having worked with computers 
> since 1966, I have come to the conclusion the more complex and 
> sophisticated the operating system is, the more likely it is to 
> develop sentience on its own and exhibit evidence of same. In the 
> early days of MVS, this was a big problem. 
> To this day, it is necessary to IPL once in a while because things 
> just get snarled and you need to "reboot".
> 
> Windows95 has so much under the covers, almost more than MVS in some
> ways. Plug and play alone is an incredible innovation if you take the 
> time to really study it. Now, the fact all these "moving parts" 
> sometimes get out of synchronization and lock up is to be expected. 
> Even if you just let the machine sit there for a month doing nothing. 
> Its not Windows95 specifically, you can crash a Sun workstation the 
> same way, just sit it on a desk and stare at it for a month with it 
> powered on, doing nothing. It will crash.
> 
> Its just that for the first time in recorded history, several hundred 
> million people have computers on their tables and desks with the same 
> operating system installed (guess which one) and with that many 
> samples in the population you can bet chaos theory says that some 
> pretty bizarre stuff is going to happen. So, when you have problems, 
> take them personally, because they aren't necessarily going to happen 
> to others. 
> 
> What is amazing, since one would expect the crashes and problems if 
> one had any experience with computers, is that any of it works at all. 
> I finally installed the MechWarrior2 cd-rom that came with my Orchid 
> R3D voodoo card last night to see what it looked like. I got sucked 
> into playing 6 missions in a row because the terrain, and the mechs, 
> and the weapons effects were so gorgeous and THE SKY - oh, my, my! 
> And the crazy thing is here I was playing a Win95 game, with these 
> gorgeous graphics, getting 30+fps smooth as silk, and then I 
> realized... hey, this is what the Win95 games promise was about! Not 
> trying to make klunky old DOS technology games fit into it, but
> learning how to write games in the Win95 paradigm. Because when you 
> do, and you underlay the right hardware, the results are absolutely 
> fabulous.
> 
> john
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> jo...@pball.com          Pursuit Ballistics, Inc.
> If the Blues don't kill you, Brother, they'll
> make you a mighty, mighty man.