Dave Plummer’s confession that his port of 3D Pinball for Windows — the Space Cadet table so many of us grew up with — once drew frames “as fast as it could” and reportedly hit roughly 5,000 FPS on newer hardware has resurfaced a powerful, funny and instructive moment in Windows engineering...
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The release of Windows XP in 2001 marked a seismic shift in the evolution of personal computing, bridging the awkward past of flaky home operating systems with the robust, business-grade technology that would become ubiquitous across both living rooms and office parks around the world...
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When I got my first PC it was a Hewlett Packard 486DX-66 running Windows 3.11. I have no recollection of ever having used Windows 1.0-3.0 as the computers we used at school were BBC Micros, so my home PC was my first Windows experience. This video is therefore both informative and a visual...