On Fri, Jul 31, 1998 at 12:03:58PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ever try replacing a Motherboard on a "win95" system?
Yes. In fact, I swapped machines around the HDs to test a theory of mine. > That "fabulous, great, decent OS" loses it's mind! You see, all > information about the hardware is kept in the registry files. When the > Id's of the old MB (in the registry) don't match the new Id's of the new > MB, all H-LL breaks loose. That hell, of course, is that Windows is updating the drivers supplied by the manufacturer(s) for their motherboard. One reboot is all that is needed. I know, like I said, I did it. Swapped a whole machine around the HDs. One machine had Win95 on it, another had Win95 and WinNT. Am I advocating Windows? No. What I am doing is quelling some serious BULLSHIT here. > In contrast, Linux boots up without so much as a single hick-up and runs > fine! This is also true since I've does the "swap" of a machine from around a HD with Linux. > You are right, the time is irrelevent, however, where is the "peer" review of > the inner workings of Win95/98? I get extremely irritated when an application > hoses the whole nine yards and I lose hours of labor to the "blue screen of > death". I've yet to lose anything within Linux. Apparently, the "Win95 > advocates" think that it is ok for the OS to lock down or freeze. Perhaps they > are numbed by the inability to fix the problem(s). Apparently you're doing something wrong. Because this *LINUX* advocate has a Win95/WinNT machine at home that rivals the uptimes of my Linux box. I have yet to lose data on that machine because of the OS, same as my Linux box. In fact, at one time I ran on a single machine OpenDOS, Win95, WinNT, OS/2 and Linux (Slackware). I had no problems with any of them. So, no, I don't think it is right that the OS dies unexpectedly. My experience is different than yours. Wonder why that is? I don't think I am gifted with any knowledge that you're not. -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my http://www.calweb.com/~morpheus | employer's. They hired me for my CC: from news not wanted or appreciated| skills and labor, not my opinions! ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null