[ale] 25 worst Products, I know a few, but not all

[Drag0n]

Microsoft BOB ( http://toastytech.com/guis/bob.html) was Bill Gates 
wife's contribution to windows, it was a graphical dumbed down desktop. 
It's also where the annoying dog in the search feature came from, as 
well as clippy I believe.
And SoftRAM was a commercial ram doubler, but not a good one at that
( http://www.ftc.gov/opa/1996/07/softram.htm )

Drag0n


Michael Still wrote:
> IIRC SoftRAM was a virtual memory type technology.  I don't recall
> ever using it.  I think the premise was that it fooled DOS into
> thinking you had more RAM (extended) than you really had.
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> On 5/26/06, KingBahamut <gwosbahamut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I was going through PCworlds top 25 worst of all time Tech Products. And I
>> have to ask, Linux Friends....wtf is this stuff?
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>> 9. Pressplay and MusicNet (2002)
>> 22. Apple Pippin @World (1996)
>> 7. Microsoft Bob (1995)
>> 3. Syncronys SoftRAM (1995)
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>> KingBahamut
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