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points by yako21000 3 days ago | 0 comments

Haha, well at least for what I used Word at this time, it didn't crash on windows 3.1x. But I was pretty young then, so I didn't do much with it.

[–] gschizas 3 days ago

Windows 3.x crashed all the time. And when it didn't crash, some resource memory or whatever filled constantly. When I installed Windows 95 (which wasn't perfect, far from it), a friend of mine asked me "so, how often do you reboot", and until that time I hadn't really realized that I "rebooted" Windows 3.11 a few times per day because the memory just filled up and I really had to.

I had at the time some software that run constantly on Windows 3.x (that I don't remember the name of (L-something), but I'm sure I got it from some magazine, since I didn't get Internet at home before 1996) just to monitor memory (and it was also a good task manager/launcher). I stopped using that with Windows 95.

[–] yako21000 3 days ago

Oh that's kinda interessting. Well it was my fathers laptop that used it only for his classes (was a french teacher). So basically he only used Word and sometimes played minesweeper and I often wrote also texts with it. But nothing advanced. So we never run into memory issues, but god, did we have a lot of floppy disks!