From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:17:18 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:   
      
   > On 2026-01-27, rbowman  wrote:   
   >> On Tue, 27 Jan 2026 06:53:52 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Remember how bad Windows 1, 2, and even 3 were? The Atari ST and Mac   
   >>> were much better.   
   >>   
   >> A friend was all in on Windows but I ignored it until 3.1 which I   
   >> eventually upgraded to Windows for Workgroups 3.11, That one had a   
   >> Winsock so you didn't have to get the third party implementation from   
   >> Trumpet.   
   >   
   > I forgot all about Trumpet. That's been a long time ago.   
      
   My first real 'ISP' consisted of a Unix shell account on a machine in the   
   back of a golf pro shop. It came with a floppy containing the Trumpet   
   Winsock, Netscape Navigator, TIA and wishes for good luck.   
      
   I'd been using Delphi and they had sort of bridged to the fledgling web   
   but this was the real, more or less, thing.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)