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[QUOTE=&quot;Rickideemus, post: 100773, member: 12677&quot;]Yup. I'm not sure how many 386 computers had CD players. I know my 286 didn't, my 486 did. You could have a dozen windows playing the CD simultaneously. No bottleneck.My first personal computer was in 1974 -- an HP-65 programmable calculator. U.S. customs called it a computer, and hp called it a &quot;small computer.&quot; Shortly after that, PC stood for &quot;Pocket Computer.&quot; I had a raft of those, then a TS-1000, C64, Atari 800, then my first 16 bit IBM compatible. I wrote programs in GWBasic, which I then compiled with BASCOM. Compiled Basic existed (along with C, of course) years before there was such a thing as Windows. :hippie:Here's the thing: they &quot;build it&quot; primarily with web advertisers in mine. The whole purpose of an operating system should be to bring &quot;Computer power to the people,&quot; as Ted Nelson once proclaimed. To channel maximum power to the end user -- the guy(al) that bought the computer in the first place.I made that suggestion once on a forum for Linux developers. They seemed to think it was a terrific idea, but nobody could think of an OS that did anything like that -- not even a Linux distro!If most users just realized how much difference this would make, and how far we've gone astray, the backlash would force Ms and Apple to start working on an operating system that actually, well, operates! Linux doesn't have the man power, absent a profit motive. You just have to make the big boys realize their profits will depend on end user satisfaction. Doesn't work that way, right now.Maybe in a hundred years. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite11" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes&nbsp; &nbsp; :rolleyes:" />R.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="Rickideemus, post: 100773, member: 12677"]Yup. I'm not sure how many 386 computers had CD players. I know my 286 didn't, my 486 did. You could have a dozen windows playing the CD simultaneously. No bottleneck. My first personal computer was in 1974 -- an HP-65 programmable calculator. U.S. customs called it a computer, and hp called it a "small computer." Shortly after that, PC stood for "Pocket Computer." I had a raft of those, then a TS-1000, C64, Atari 800, then my first 16 bit IBM compatible. I wrote programs in GWBasic, which I then compiled with BASCOM. Compiled Basic existed (along with C, of course) years before there was such a thing as Windows. :hippie: Here's the thing: they "build it" primarily with web advertisers in mine. The whole purpose of an operating system should be to bring "Computer power to the people," as Ted Nelson once proclaimed. To channel maximum power to the end user -- the guy(al) that bought the computer in the first place. I made that suggestion once on a forum for Linux developers. They seemed to think it was a terrific idea, but nobody could think of an OS that did anything like that -- not even a Linux distro! If most users just realized how much difference this would make, and how far we've gone astray, the backlash would force Ms and Apple to start working on an operating system that actually, well, [I][B]operates![/B][/I] Linux doesn't have the man power, absent a profit motive. You just have to make the big boys realize their profits will depend on end user satisfaction. Doesn't work that way, right now. Maybe in a hundred years. :rolleyes: R.[/QUOTE]

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