"BillW50" wrote in :

I would love to run Windows 3.1, 95, and 98 once again. And I am not
talking about under a virtual machine. As that just isn't the same thing
to me. But I don't see myself getting too much done with them anymore.
As the XP world allows me to do what they can, plus tons more. ;-)


What might help this is those ARM chips because they are aimed at small
machines, efficient code, not too much stuff between the API and the user
dode. They're even trying to get them into schools ('Rasperry PI' and such)
to teach kids to code. The gap between the low level and high level had
become all but unmanageable, and those new chips might be the answer. They
won't run our old Windows software, I imagine, but they do give a way out of
a mess.

About big software and resources, while there can be a correlation, I'd
rather run a big program that cleans up after itself than a small one with a
GDI leak. Making sure that code does behave well is the real key, and
those ARM chips will help a lot with that, but the same skills apply equally
to W98's API so I guess all will benefit from each other. (Coding at low
level on any machine is a gateway into the heart of another).