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Mrs Beanbag · 20 June 2013, 20:23

It sounds like they're thinking entirely in Windows PC terms. Windows 3.1 wasn't proper multitasking, only co-operatively multitasking. Windows NT came out in '93 and then of course Windows 95 for the average user.

Likewise VGA graphics only had 256 colours until SVGA in 1989.

It sounds like the problem is explaining to them the existence of computers other than "IBM compatible" PCs, and that what applies to PCs doesn't necessarily apply to anything else.

20 June 2013, 20:23	#4
Mrs Beanbag Glastonbridge Software Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Edinburgh/Scotland Posts: 2,243	It sounds like they're thinking entirely in Windows PC terms. Windows 3.1 wasn't proper multitasking, only co-operatively multitasking. Windows NT came out in '93 and then of course Windows 95 for the average user. Likewise VGA graphics only had 256 colours until SVGA in 1989. It sounds like the problem is explaining to them the existence of computers other than "IBM compatible" PCs, and that what applies to PCs doesn't necessarily apply to anything else.