New Windows 386 supports multitasking, cool

[Michael Aivaliotis]

Maybe NI should take an example from this marketing video for Windows 386 as an example of how to promote multicore processing. Be patient, it get freaky towards the middle.

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[Tomi Maila]

I wonder if Bill himself was the art director for this video

[Jeffrey Habets]

Ah, so I guess this promotional video is the reason why OS/2 never made it even though it was the superior OS of the two in these days..

[Ton Plomp]

QUOTE(Jeffrey Habets @ Aug 26 2007, 12:49 PM)

Ah, so I guess this promotional video is the reason why OS/2 never made it even though it was the superior OS of the two in these days..

Mrs. MC Hammer

[orko]

There is some pretty interesting commentary about the making of this video in Larry Osterman's weblog.

Another little bit of trivia is that the lead actress, Victoria Carver, also was the madam in a 1970's skinflik "The Godson" (check out the plot keywords...). No wonder I felt like this was the start of an 80's porno... I almost felt dirty after watching it! Wuh wuh Windows?

[TG]

QUOTE(Michael_Aivaliotis @ Aug 25 2007, 09:02 PM)

Maybe NI should take an example from this marketing video for Windows 386 as an example of how to promote multicore processing. Be patient, it get freaky towards the middle.

Very enjoyable

Reminds me of those "good old days" when the Soviets were the enemy and LabVIEW was bigger on the Macintosh than on the PC.

[crelf]

QUOTE(Jeffrey Habets @ Aug 26 2007, 05:49 AM)

Ah, so I guess this promotional video is the reason why OS/2 never made it even though it was the superior OS of the two in these days..

I miss OS/2