From: "Thomas Harte" <T DOT Harte AT btinternet DOT com DOT DELETE_HERE>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: c|net: Microsoft has officially killed MS-DOS.
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 01:06:47 +0100
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>I have a friend which use the firsts release of Win95 without any
crashes...

Oh, I know what you mean. I have a Pentium 200 with first release Windows
95, and because I've resisted the urge to install and remove lots of things,
I run Office 95 Pro, Visual C++ 5.0 Professional Edition, Visual C++ 6.0
Introductory Edition (the help is better!), IE 4.0, Netscape 4.6 and Paint
Shop Pro 5 (as well as DJGPP, Mingwin32, lcc-win32, and some games), all at
as fast a speed as the hard drive lets them load, and with no crashes and no
noticeable disk swapping. At 1024x768 16bit colour too.

Conversely, the machine I am on now is a P166 (so a shade slower), with the
same amount of RAM, but runs horrible windows 95 second release IE 4.0
desktop and Office 97, and is forever messing with its hard disk, and never
fails to hang at the 'please wait while windows shuts down' screen.

-Thomas