[ale] 25 worst Products, I know a few, but not all

KingBahamut gwosbahamut at gmail.com
Fri May 26 17:32:38 EDT 2006


Melinda Gates was a developer?

Why does that make me really really really scared.


On 5/26/06, Drag0n <dragon at atlantacon.org> wrote:
>
> Microsoft BOB ( http://toastytech.com/guis/bob.html) was Bill Gates
> wife's contribution to windows, it was a graphical dumbed down desktop.
> It's also where the annoying dog in the search feature came from, as
> well as clippy I believe.
> And SoftRAM was a commercial ram doubler, but not a good one at that
> ( http://www.ftc.gov/opa/1996/07/softram.htm )
>
> Drag0n
>
>
> Michael Still wrote:
> > IIRC SoftRAM was a virtual memory type technology.  I don't recall
> > ever using it.  I think the premise was that it fooled DOS into
> > thinking you had more RAM (extended) than you really had.
> >
> > On 5/26/06, KingBahamut <gwosbahamut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I was going through PCworlds top 25 worst of all time Tech Products.
> And I
> >> have to ask, Linux Friends....wtf is this stuff?
> >>
> >> 9. Pressplay and MusicNet (2002)
> >> 22. Apple Pippin @World (1996)
> >> 7. Microsoft Bob (1995)
> >> 3. Syncronys SoftRAM (1995)
> >>
> >>
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