• April 25

  Generally speaking a tileset should let you tell one tile from another

  

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  Mahjong Solitaire (also known as Shanghai) has been popular on computers since the 1980s, and it...

  Mahjong Solitaire (also known as Shanghai) has been popular on computers since the 1980s, and it was particularly popular in the 90s when a version by Microsoft was released. For those that don't know, it is a tile matching game that (typically) uses Mahjong tiles; aside from these tiles it shares nothing with Mahjong. Even then, the tiles are mostly an aesthetic choice; when...

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• March 18

  Why didn't Win 95 setup use a miniature version of Win 95 as its fallback GUI?

  

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  One of the reactions to my discussion of why Windows 95 setup used three operating systems...

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• March 6

  WordPerfect

  

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  It is March 30, 1992. Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy" has begun its descent from...

  It is March 30, 1992. Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy" has begun its descent from the pinnacle of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs sweeps the Academy Awards. And WordPerfect Corporation, producer of the industry-standard word processing software, fires its Chief Operating Officer.(He will go on to tell his side of the story in Almost Perfect: How...

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• February 17

  Did the Windows 95 setup team forget that MS-DOS can do graphics?

  

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  One of the reactions to my discussion of why Windows 95 setup used three operating systems...

  One of the reactions to my discussion of why Windows 95 setup used three operating systems (and oh there were many) was my explanation that an MS-DOS based setup program would be text-mode. But c’mon, MS-DOS could do graphics! Are you just a bunch of morons? Yes, MS-DOS could do graphics, in the sense that it didn’t...

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