28 Aug
2019
28 Aug
'19
5 p.m.
On Wed, 28 Aug 2019, Charles H Sauer wrote:
possible components of answer regarding
animation/CGI:
o SGI/MIPS/IRIX would have fared better/longer
o Jobs would have pushed Pixar towards Mach
o P4+NVIDIA would still have been disruptive
(https://secure2.linuxjournal.com/ljarchive/LJ/099/6011s1.html)
o Gates would have done more
Windows had usable TCP/IP, at least starting with Windows 3, from Trumpet,
Chameleon and others. I found/find the Microsoft 32 bit implementation
preferable running Mosaic and Netscape, but had to do some work with 16 bit
Trumpet a few years ago for a client that needed me to make some things work
in DOS outside of Win 3.1.
I actually wrote an IRC client for plain DOS a few years ago - I used
WatTCP.
-uso.