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Wing Commander III changed how the copy hotkey works in Windows 95

The Cyrix 6x86 line was an awful series of bad design decisions.

On a "Genuine Intel", Windows 95 *was* a much better way of playing DOS games. It didn't need crap like MSCDEX, Graphics, soundcard or mouse drivers hogging the lower 640k. For the original DOS version of Quake, iD recommended using Win95 for networking, otherwise you had to use proprietary TCP/IP drivers. It even played nice with the DOS/4GW dos extender. Was it perfect? Heck no! It was less crap than multiboot configs for different games though.

Doom is 30, and so is Windows NT. How far we haven't come

Re: Word 6

Totally agree, but you can bet that every Reg Reader will be in the 10%. Or at least think they are. ;)

After nearly two decades of waiting, GNOME 44 brings you... image thumbnails

Re: Whose Informed Opinion?

> "on Windows 10, you can’t even alter the width of the columns in the file explorer any more!!! Why??? Fuck knows. They haven’t even removed the function cleanly because the mouse icon still changes to suggest you can alter the width."

Are you sure? I don't have a copy of W10 handy, but I don't remember ever having that issue and I'm sure I would've noticed. It's definitely not the case for W11.

It's been 230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metric system

Re: Hooray for Avoirdupois and pounds, shillings and pence

Spirits used to be in fractions of a Gill. (Pronounced Jill. No, me neither)

In Scotland it was commonly as 1/4 Gills and England 1/5 Gills.

That turned into 35ml vs 25ml - a difference I find much easier to visualise - but difficult to stomach at the same price.

Battle of the retro Unix desktops: NsCDE versus CDE

Re: You can not be serious, man ...

> I do not think Gnome even looks like Windows 95 by default in most cases, does it?

Baby and Bathwater springs to mind - often seems like the Gnome-devs looked at what did work in Win95 and threw those out first.

Safari is crippling the mobile market, and we never even noticed

Re: Meh

I've lost count of the number of times Firefox has been a marvelous browser, added pointless cruft until it's rendered unusable and then been stripped down again.

Why the Linux desktop is the best desktop

Re: Linux "Desktop"

Like most weird UIs, it's only weird to new, or occasional users. Personally, I find most Line-Of-Business application UIs to only make sense when considered from the perspective of the professionals who use them day-to-day.

Like Photoshop or Gimp. They are seriously weird for anyone coming from Paint level programs.

GNOME 42's inconsistent themes are causing drama

Microsoft have dicked around with the Start Menu in every single version since they introduced it in Win95. And every time, someone's written a tool to emulate the previous version.

Microsoft's do-it-all IDE Visual Studio 2022 came out late last year. How good is it really?

Re: The Microsoft naming department

5) Templates were not in 1st edition TC++PL (1985). They were first described in the ARM (1989), They were implemented in Cfront3.0 (1991) and documented in 2nd Edition TC++PL (1991).

It's safer to say generic programming was always intended to be in C++, but it took a while for it to be added.

Ubuntu 21.10 brings GNOME 40 debut and a focus on devs

Ancient history

Strictly speaking, it was a POSIX subsystem, not UNIX.

And to install successfully Impish Indri in WSL, you need to remove snapd. It's an ill wind... and silver linings all round.

Anatomy of a killer bug: How just 5 characters can murder iPhone, Mac apps

This article causes the Register Windows 8 App to crash on my PC. How ironic.