Geoff Chappell - Software Analyst
This site had 22,420 visits in August 2022 from 14,804 unique visitors.
The list below is of document pages that were each viewed at least 100 times in the month. Ranks in parentheses are from July 2022. Faded titles are just index pages which I presume are viewed only or mainly on the way to others, especially while moving from one Table of Contents (TOC) to another. One of those index pages is just the skimpiest of placeholders, pending my writing an introduction, which I likely never will get round to. The TOCs are omitted entirely, as is the banner page, since none of these are meant to be seen independently of a document page.
The list seems these days to have a long tail of pages that just sneak past my arbitrary cut-off of 100 visits. That these pages get even an occasional reading is, of course, far more interesting to me than is the embarrassing “success” of an old throw-away page such as the one about the Windows Explorer’s command line. Especially intriguing this month is the first appearance of a troubled page about how the old Windows that runs on DOS could run its own GUI in one of its virtual DOS machines. It’s one of those pages that I can’t let go of, because although I soon wish I had never started, I also think there’s an important point of history to settle. After all, if it’s worth Raymond Chen’s time to write that For a brief period, Windows 95 could run Windows 3.1 in a virtual machine, then it’s arguably important to record that Raymond must know there was more going on than Microsoft might like be realised. For all I’m to know, the 110 visits to this page last month were not even from readers but from people who were looking for something else altogether, but if it is getting a hundred readers in a month perhaps I had better finish it!