Those Windows 3.x days sure were memorable. I recall the QEMM memory "manager" that would calculate out all possible driver loading scenarios to eek out 2 or so kilobytes of RAM for the "conventional RAM" portion.

And there was SideKick! And all of those other poorly coded TSRs. You never knew why stuff crashed.

RIP, Windows 3.x. It wasn't a good time, but it was truly memorable.

... but it's a real word and has been around a whole lot longer than you brain surgeons.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/straggled



Main Entry:
1strag·gle Listen to the pronunciation of 1straggle
Pronunciation:
\ˈstra-gəl\ 
Function:
intransitive verb 
Inflected Form(s):
strag·gled; strag·gling Listen to the pronunciation of straggling \-g(ə-)liŋ\ 
Etymology:
Middle English straglen
Date:
15th century

1 : to wander from the direct course or way : rove , stray 2 : to trail off from others of its kind <little cabins straggling off into the woods>
— strag·gler Listen to the pronunciation of straggler \-g(ə-)lər\ noun

And btw, don't worry about this comment being one of many you've chosen not to published ... you just read it.

"some might claim that ... recent operating systems are still running on DOS ...."

Some might claim that theinq is a serious news source too. Baloney to both.

Because they made a command line which accepts most of the same syntax as DOS, its just DOS is it?

Aaah, the early ancestor to the dog poo we are served up by Micro$oft today.

At least Vista crashes faster....

As others have pointed out, "straggle" is already a word in the English language. Making stuff up is fine -- just let us know that you're kidding.

There have been other examples of this kind of error: "helicoptering" used to mean spinning round in the playground going "dugga-dugga-dugga". Imagine helicoptering someone after they just survived an earthquake! Poor things.

Another word that the BBC tried to redefine was "gazunder", which they used to refer to the questionable activity of renegotiating a property price downwards after the sale had been arranged. But a gazunder is a chamber pot, and "gazundering" would therefore be taking a dump.

The word "emergency" should be used to refer to *emerging* from one branch of WH Smith's or Tesco's and thinking you're in one town, but then you *see* that you're somewhere else.

But yes, "straggle", from Middle English "straglen", to wander. Possibly from a Scandinavian source, like Norwegian "stragla", to walk laboriously; or as a frequentive of "straken", to move, to go.

Besides, "conjunction"? Don't you mean "portmanteau"?

Ahh, Win3.11 an a sweet Acerpower, the first computer I owned from new! 4 megs of memory, 500 meg hard drive. Man, it was spec'd for the time but as INQ also felt, I don't really have any fondness for this old OS. While I may have a working copy of Win3.11 running in VMWare, I've long since abandoned Windows as a primary OS.

round robin is a pre-emptive multitasking scheduling algorithm, you can't mix it with the notion of cooperative multitasking.

I kinda thought that straggled meant:

strag⋅gle   /ˈstrægəl/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [strag-uhl] Show IPA Pronunciation 

–verb (used without object), -gled, -gling. 1. to stray from the road, course, or line of march. 
2. to wander about in a scattered fashion; ramble. 
3. to spread or be spread in a scattered fashion or at irregular intervals: The trees straggle over the countryside. 
(www.dictionary.com)

Means to have fallen behind, you really should have used draggled as your new Inq'ism.

Efros