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Re: CBM engineer Bil Herd to attend CommVEx 2015
« on: May 11, 2015, 03:46:04 PM »
Also Windows 3 (besides being released a full 4-5 years after Amiga OS 1.x) had very similar issues to Workbench still after all that time.

Issues such as only actual programs written for Windows being easy to use out of the box. Dos apps required the creation of PIF files manually by the user just like the Amiga user having to create a .icon file for a program that did not create one itself.

Though Workbench 2 which released about the same time as Windows 3 addressed that with a 'view all files' to allow viewing on Workbench files that did not have .info icon files.

Version 1.x workbench was a bit harder to use and not very stable until you got to 1.3, but a lot of that was addressed in 2.0

Guess folks trying to revise history don't recall Windows 3 computers coming to a halt when the simplest program locked up. People 'losing' programs when they accidentally pressed delete while reaching for the Enter key which to this day brings up the delete requester that defaults to 'yes' instead of 'no', deleting the icon (no trashcan) with no way to display it easily again. Got a lot of those calls back in Windows 3.1 days.

The advantage for business for Windows was the multiuser functions and networking which Commodore never managed to get into Workbench. But for home use, multiuser functions were rarely used even in Windows 95. First real use I would see for home users would be in XP and even that pretty rare. Usually just to give children locked down functions while the adults all used one user for their unrestricted use.
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