Peter Hendra wrote in
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When Win95 was released, I knew people in Sydney, Aus. who queued up
on the first day just to get a copy. They didn't even own a computer.
Never did run 95.

cheers
Peter



While 95 was better than 3.1, which was simply a gui put over DOS 3.3
with a few toys, they weren't competing with the MAC, a computer I have
no use for because of its closed environment and expensive software.
Win98 wasn't much better than 95 until the SE version had been out a
year. It is very stable, but limited in memory access and hard drive
partition size by its 16-bit hardware limitations. I still have a 98
machine running, here, doing menial tasks like downloading music and
movies with a little 14" LCD monitor over in the corner. It runs
faultlessly, now that the bugs have matured, for MONTHS at a time with no
reboot on the 2KW UPS everything here plugs into. I simply reload its
que with more binaries off usenet and shut off its monitor until I see
its drive light no longer blinking madly away. Its WD hard drive and DVD
burner must have 50,000 hours on them!

Vista will be fine AFTER the hackers across the planet do all the work
making it safe to use and fixing its bugs. They do a better job because
they are not under the gun of Ballmer staring down at them from above
sending nastygrams about getting the product on the shelves before it's
ready for use....a typical corporate environment, just look at any GM
car.

Larry
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I missed ME, 2000 and a few versions of NT....(c;

PS - Before the MAC addicts attack, my comment is about the corporations
failure to let these hackers make it better trying to raise profits the
proprietary way. Also, 95% of the software on any shareware site is
WINDOWS, still. LINUX is the best cheap OS. Too bad noone ever agreed
on ONE gui for it or finished version 1.0 of any software available for
it. The genius kids who write LINUX software do something neat. Then,
because of their short attention spans, abandon it about ver 0.953d and
move their short attention span onto the next neat project, never
finishing anything that's still buggy....to LINUX's dismay. If LINUX
ever got organised under one umbrella, Vista would have never been
written. Pity......