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Computer viking
May 30, 2011
Now with less breakage.

LimaBiker posted:

Now including 4 extra Boomer elipses!

And they are not even proper … ellipsis, but dot space dot space dot . . .

More on topic, it's fun how exactly that marketing mirrors the more optimistic pitches for AI in the workplace.

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Computer viking
May 30, 2011
Now with less breakage.

Fil5000 posted:

You know, I seem to recall never actually seeing any iteration of 4 installed on anything back in the day. Everything went from like 3.3 to 5 and skipped 4 entirely. Was 4 the D&D 4 of operating systems or something

As I understand it: Basically yes. They went off on a tangent and designed a multitasking DOS, complete with a fullscreen launcher to manage and switch between programs. IIRC it used a lot more RAM than 3 and was never entirely finished, but was shipped on some weird European business machines. There is also a separate "4" that was a more normal "3 with a few upgrades" that they made with IBM, but I don't think that had any sort of wide distribution either.

E: MT-DOS 4 at betawiki

E2: Oh OS/2 is kind of a descendant - I thought it was already around when this launched, but no.

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Computer viking
May 30, 2011
Now with less breakage.

Dick Trauma posted:

You know what you must do.

Please don't snort the fader dust.

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