"The way they align their spreadsheets for their financial reports—is not the way we used to do it."
  • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    15 days ago

    I don’t know about all that, didn’t they develop Windows just to have a platform to play FreeCell Solitaire?

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
      13·
      15 days ago

      No, it was a GUI designed on top of MS-DOS specifically to import Minesweeper from IBM OS/2.

      • SilverCode@lemmy.mlEnglish
        14·
        15 days ago

        Windows is a 32-bit hardware extension and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company, that can’t stand 1 bit of competition