Windows98

[Jeffrey Watts]

My main problem with Win95 was that it was a house of cards.  Things could
be running really well, then a bad upgrade or new driver could make the damn
thing crap itself out.

Win2000/XP weren't bad OSes, at least they could be kept in decent shape,
that is until you got a virus through your email or IE.  :)

Jeffrey.


On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Jonathan Hutchins
<hutchins at tarcanfel.org>wrote:

> On Sunday 27 July 2008 12:22:24 pm Christofer C. Bell wrote:
>
> >  Call me nostalgic for stupid things, but I really liked Windows 95.
>
> I did too, and ran it until a motherboard upgrade left it unbootable.  It
> was
> very stable for me, and as we began running linux on more of it's hardware,
> we found that a lot of the crashes we attributed to "that darned Microsoft"
> were actually problems with the hardware.
>
> Never liked 98 much, especially it's habit of reconfiguring the hardware on
> each boot - much like mistakes being made today with user-space dynamic
> hardware configuration.
>
> My NT4 server has run for years without problems, but a failing hard disk
> has
> finally prodded me to run something new.  With NT, the key to stability was
> System Admins who actually knew what they were doing.  Plenty of paper
> MSCE's
> should never been allowed near a keyboard.
>
>
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oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that
will reach to himself." -- Thomas Paine
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