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"BAR" wrote in message
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snip...
who is you Krause.



Who is you Bar?

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"HK" wrote in message
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Bert A. Robbins, of Rockville, chimes in...
He's the self-taught IT guy.


This can't be that pretend marine who soiled this newsgroup a couple of
years ago?

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HK wrote:
BAR wrote:
HK wrote:
BAR wrote:
Don White wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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Bert A. Robbins, of Rockville, chimes in...
He's the self-taught IT guy.


This can't be that pretend marine who soiled this newsgroup a
couple of years ago?


You and Krause should be ashamed of yourselves for letting a
"pretend marine who soiled this newsgroup" to fool you for a couple
of years. Some other "pretend marines" and an army doggie figured
out who I was rather quickly after I changed my from address.

Actually, Bertie, you spent almost the entire time in my bozo bin,
not because I thought you were Bertie, but because your posts were
just like Bertie's. Therefore, all those posts you posted that were
aimed at me...why...how sad...I never saw them.


He swings and he strikes out agian.

How is that 36' Zimmerman like Lobsta' boat?


How's your front loading garage?

It's find, do you want to post a picture of it here to prove to everyone
that you really are an insecure lonely old man?

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"BAR" wrote in message
. ..
Don White wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
. ..

Bert A. Robbins, of Rockville, chimes in...
He's the self-taught IT guy.


This can't be that pretend marine who soiled this newsgroup a couple of
years ago?

You and Krause should be ashamed of yourselves for letting a "pretend
marine who soiled this newsgroup" to fool you for a couple of years. Some
other "pretend marines" and an army doggie figured out who I was rather
quickly after I changed my from address.


Great... now all we need is Skipper & Karen to return and we're right back
where we started.
It's enough to send me on a Mickey Mouse cruise.

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Wayne.B wrote:
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:42:16 -0400, BAR wrote:

Address? Address? You can address all of the memory space all of the
time. What makes a processor run faster is to have a great pre-fetch or
a lot of real and fast memory available.

That's true at the hardware level.

At the software level the best use is for preloading key database
components into a large buffer store or virtual disk. Other than
Harry I doubt that many of us are hosting large databases.

Harry has a database with information about all of us.

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Calif Bill wrote:
"Marc Heusser" d wrote in
message ...
In article ,
thunder wrote:

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:27:09 -0400, HK wrote:


Despite underwhelming consumers and being snubbed by enterprises,
Windows Vista's numbers keep growing, with Microsoft Corp. saying
Thursday that it has now shipped *88 million copies* of the operating
system, almost double the number of copies of XP in the same amount of
time at its launch.
Almost double? Doesn't seem that impressive when you consider the
personal
computer
market has almost doubled since XP was introduced. In 2002, there were
51
million PCs sold.
In 2007, 96 million are expected to be sold.
Apple by now has half the market capitalization of Microsoft, which says
something as it is bigger than Oracle, IBM, Intel or HP. Its market
share probably grew 37% last year (estimate for 4th quarter). It is
currently at 8% market share.
And its newest operating system release (Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard") sells
at USD 129 (everyone gets the "ultimate" version) - and is in many ways
more advanced.
But still, in absolute numbers of operating systems sold, Microsoft
rules.

Marc

--
remove bye and from mercial to get valid e-mail
http://www.heusser.com

But Apple also includes the selling of 90 million Ipods. Lot of profit
there.

Maybe Microsoft should include the selling of hundreds of Zune's

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"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"BAR" wrote in message
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Jim forgets that this iS a newsGROUP.


All I know is that this newsgroup is starting to suck big time.

Eisboch


Starting? Where's Tom's Discombobulater?

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"HK" wrote in message
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Calif Bill wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
...
Calif Bill wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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D-unit wrote:

Dear MS (Bill)

Can I get a refund on my copy Vista?

I hate it. Its slow, locks up and does things I don't like.
An OS shouldn't do that.


I just want to run applications as fast as possible. Thats all.
I wouldn't install this bloatware on my work machines unless I
wanted to loose my job and was looking for a way out.


I bought Vista, my stoopid, I know.

db
VISTA isn't slow if you are running the right processor and an
appropriate amount of memory for the applications you use.

Bet you're not.

Use that same processor and memory setup and XP will still run faster.
Running a warp speed processor to get the same performance as an XP
machine running a supersonic speed CPU is just masking problems.

Sorry; can't run the "same" memory setup on XP. That should give you a
hint, eh? I've been waiting patiently here for someone to bring up
something, anything, and you've come the closest, even though you still
didn't get it. :}




Depending the processor, you can run up to 64 gb of memory. Does Vista
require even more?
XP doesn't recognize 64 gigs of memory.

3.5 gigs with 64 bit system and 3 gigs with 32 bit and a /3gb ini qualifier.
But that also inclueds virtual memory. MS DOS etc always never new how to
use memory.

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"Marc Heusser" d wrote in
message ...
In article ,
thunder wrote:

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:27:09 -0400, HK wrote:


Despite underwhelming consumers and being snubbed by enterprises,
Windows Vista's numbers keep growing, with Microsoft Corp. saying
Thursday that it has now shipped *88 million copies* of the operating
system, almost double the number of copies of XP in the same amount of
time at its launch.

Almost double? Doesn't seem that impressive when you consider the
personal
computer
market has almost doubled since XP was introduced. In 2002, there were
51
million PCs sold.
In 2007, 96 million are expected to be sold.

Apple by now has half the market capitalization of Microsoft, which says
something as it is bigger than Oracle, IBM, Intel or HP. Its market
share probably grew 37% last year (estimate for 4th quarter). It is
currently at 8% market share.
And its newest operating system release (Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard") sells
at USD 129 (everyone gets the "ultimate" version) - and is in many ways
more advanced.
But still, in absolute numbers of operating systems sold, Microsoft
rules.

Marc

--
remove bye and from mercial to get valid e-mail
http://www.heusser.com

But Apple also includes the selling of 90 million Ipods. Lot of profit
there.

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"Wayne.B" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:29:17 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

Proably the most fun computer was the VIC-20 and when I upgraded to
the Commodore 64 I was in hog heaven - man, could I do some stuff with
that. It still runs.

Yes, and it was a great glass teletype for logging onto Compuserve and
some of the early Bulletin Board systems. Those were the days. Look
how far we've come and how little has changed. :-) I once caught
something resembling a virus on the "64".

There used to be a company that offered a service close to universal
connectivity. You dialed into one number and from there you could
connect to a variety of different systems. Can't remember the name of
it but at the time it seemed like a great concept. Old stuff to those
on the old ARPANET I suppose.

My first system was an NCR 315. 6 microsecond clock cycle. 10K decimal
memory. 12 bit machine. Mag cards and tape and paper tape an punch cards
input. Online bank system with 110 baud lease lines. When they first
demonstrated a 9600 baud modem and the 1966 Fall Joint Computer Conference
in San Francisco, we were stunned. First personal computer was a North Star
S100 computer. Then the first IBM PC was about 1982. A few versions of it
later and I still have a ROM Emulator that plugs into the XT Bus. Then
worked on a DEC 11/34 as the interface to a $250k laser printer that hooked
into an IBM 360 I/O Channel. Emulated an IBM 3800. The 370 had 8 megabytes
of memory. Designed disk controllers with Mote 6800 and then a 68000
processor. The early code was done on Tandy 68K running SCO Unix. Then
converted to SUN workstations. As my wife says the first computer I showed
her that I worked on filled a large room. And cost $150k in 1960 dollars.
Lots more power in my desktop $500 and my $1000 Dell laptop. Except for the
I/O channels.