From: "Chris Jones" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Win 2000 & Djgpp Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 12:05:19 -0000 Organization: University of Kent at Canterbury Lines: 66 Message-ID: <88e3p7$igj$1@spruce.ukc.ac.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: stue20c.ukc.ac.uk X-Trace: spruce.ukc.ac.uk 950702695 18963 129.12.226.12 (16 Feb 2000 12:04:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news AT ukc DOT ac DOT uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Feb 2000 12:04:55 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com > >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.