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From: "Chris Jones" <cj7 AT ukc DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Win 2000 & Djgpp
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 12:05:19 -0000
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> >It's fast and reliable,
>
> Are you sure you are refeerring to windows and not to linux/
> UNIX ;-)
> Fast??? I certainly don't think so. Even on my athlon 500 mhz it takes
> it's time starting up and it is very slooow. It is bloated too taking a
> huge amount of memory...

On my Pentium-233 it does take a long time to start up, but once running, it
can multitask much more smoothly than Win9x - I can play an mp3 and work at
the same time under Win2000, whereas under Win95 the music would start
skipping if I did anything else.

> Could you please tell me since the day that you installed win2000 how
> many crashes did you get?

Well, various applications have crashed, but Windows2000 itsself has never
crashed. When an app crashes I can always kill it in Task Manager, and
continue with my Windows session.

> I installed RH linux6.0 and I still haven't got a crash for over 4 months.

I can't comment about linux - I've never used it and I really don't want to
learn another set of commands. If anyone writes a DOS emulator for Linux, I
might give it a go :-)

> Actually Chris this is quite wrong, AFAIK due to windoze's intrinsically
> faulty design one badly behaved app can indeed bring the whole system
> crashing to the ground.

This has never happened to me. The only time I've seen Win2k totally crash
is if a full-screen DOS-app causes a fault in ntvdm - in which case, the
whole system does die.

> there was this user who was complainig that RHIDE with windoze
> gave him a back screen and then the system locked up.

This is the example I was talking about above; however, if you run RHIDE
windowed then all that happens is it kills the process when it crashes.

> I think Chris you should not belive all the hype that microshaft is
> delivering.

I'm not believing any hype - I've used Win2000 myself for 2 months now, and
am speaking from experience.

> > IMO, Win2000 is good value for money.
>
> I don't belive i'm reading this ;-)

Look, it's only a figure of speech - I mean, it's a good OS. I wouldn't pay
the $88 or whatever it costs.

> FWIW I allways install windoze from a pirated CD

Exactly - did you think I was an official beta tester?

> IMHO Windoze is just good to run the occasional game you have, It is
> _not_ good for any serious work.

I admit that it's not good for servers or time-critical applications. But
for the average home user, who just wants to do some word processing and
play a few games, Windows is the best out there.



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