Windows 10: Windows 9 Start Menu Concept

Yep ran a BBS for a number of years then internet happened and became affordable.

 

I remember the old days of 3.1. I believe it may have been the first Windows OS I ever used. We had it on a work computer with an AutoCAD based Land Surveying program for drafting up Certificates of Survey. I have to admit that as I got older and my eyes got weaker the larger monitors that started coming out were a good thing! *Smile

 

It's weird seeing that. *Smile My first PC was a Leading Edge Model D (XT clone) and it weirded me out last year to see a YouTube video of tha old D still booting.

 

That's awesome!!
I have a real fascination for old computers and old technology in general. I have a bunch of old video cameras, 3 8-track players that I fixed, and a collection of old laptops ranging from 1991 to 2002.

This laptop I'm using right now actually is the one from 2002, which I fixed just for fun. My dad gave it to me because he found it collecting dust on a shelf at his work. The company he works for apparently thought it was broken permanently, and they never fixed it. All that was wrong with it was the XP installation was corrupt. After reinstalling Windows XP, this computer is now working great (as you can see). Funny how people will just junk perfectly good computers that only need like a few simple fixes. also saw the infamous Windows XP End of life notification on here, which was pretty funny. Next time it happens maybe I will take a picture of it. Lol.

 

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How about THIS -- running an emulated version of the old IBM mainframe system OS-MVS on a LAPTOP -- the TSO terminal is emulating a 3278 IBM terminal which actually had 4 colours !!!

(If you want to try this download the HERCULES emulator and the MVS system from the " MVS Turnkey" project -- this was the last "Unbundled" IBM mainframe release where everything has been put in public domain). Any old IBM Sysprogs out there.

The Hercules System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture Emulator

MVS Tur(n)key System - Readme File

 

LOL! What would you say that's dated?
Late 70's? xDD

 

Hi there
around 1975 or so !!!!

Actually Mainframes are making a bit of a comeback -- I can see why -- cheaper than 15,000 licences on client machines !!! and of course the sheer power of these things.

IBM designed some good stuff in those days -- the IBM MVS system is a good introduction to concepts like I/O vs CPU bound, multi-tasking, paging / swap, supervisor (or privileged) mode vs application mode execution etc etc -- features that still barely exist in modern OS'es.

I used to give some courses on basic OS principles -- the IBM MVS system was a good model for the students --taught them the basics that are still valuable today.

Cheers
jimbo

 

It's funny how sometimes Engineers put stuff in and nobody uses it. As example the 386 has 4 rings of execution privilege 0 -3. The only OS I've seen myself that used other than just 0 and 3 was OS/2. If you wrote a DLL it ran at ring 2. But since they didn't really differentiate anything not 3 was running effectively at 0. Too many people were writing DLLs to do whatever they wanted. *Smile

The other one that comes to mind is the Segment Descriptor Table on the 386. You could construct 48 bit addresses. But I guess people were sick of the old 8086 segment register hassle. So nobody used it. They just set them to 0 and used 32 bit addressing.

 

That reminds me, when I was a mechanic there was a pile of junk in the garage. On a slow day I looked through the pile. At the bottom was a pnumatic chisel. I plugged it into the compressed air line. It immediately went off. Jazzing the trigger did nothing. It just kept going. Seems that was why it was chucked in the pile. When the Snap-On guy came in later that week I gave him a few dollars for the trigger spring. It worked fine after the spring was inserted. *Smile

 

xD!!!
I freaking love it when stuff like that happens!

 

A bit of interesting news!
My concept picture was featured in two online articles today!

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/14032...back-after-all

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windo...r-434106.shtml

 

*Thumbs

 

Hey guys, if you want your start menu "back" you can give Pokki a try! Pokki.com brings your favorite apps and games to your PC
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Cool. *Smile

 

I saw a video of a 9 concept(can't seem to find it again) that was animated. The Start page had a "Go Button" so you could select more than one App and fire them off. Also lots of customized toolbars with touch screen on the desktop. But the audio speed fluctuated so much I couldn't follow what the author was saying during the demo. I tried playing it 5 or 6 times then gave up. All i know for sure is he had lots of panels and toolbars flying around.