Hello Michael Wilson & everyone else 21-Okt-2004 18:38, you wrote:
> Windows XP is the best and most stable, as hard drive size increases have > virtually stopped. Uhm. I beg to differ, my experience is vastly different. HDD usage has *never* increased more during daily usage than with Win XP. My system partition (without additional programs - I have the program files on a different partition) for XP is 4GB; after installation XP took 2GB, and now its at 3.2GB - within about half a year ever since I switched to XP. Hello, where's dem gigs goin' to? I haven't yet peeked into the partition to find out where all that space is lost... BUT: my W2k partition was 2GB and the occupied size (1.5GB) never changed very much. > If 95 or 98 or me is used, the DOS kernal is the most unstable. Yes, because it is *MS* DOS... <veg> > DOs is not multi-tasking, multi-user or multi-threading, and windoes > tries to add all those features while DOs is fighting it. Plus MS never learned how to implement multitasking and multithreading propperly. Can you say AmigaOS? :-) > NT is for servers. 200 is bloatware. XP is the first, sort-of departure > from old paterns. It too, however, self-corrupts Given the ratio of performance and stability, the NT series had its peak with W2k - and XP is already a step backwards, there's no denying it. My W2k installation at home (with moderate installation/deinstallation of programs and drivers and stuff over time) never let me down in about three years, the XP installation at work (with an almost *fixed* set of programs and the occasional security updates) is already close to shipwrecked in about one and half years. -- Best regards, Alexander (http://www.neurowerx.de - ICQ 238153981) using v3.0.2.1 on Windows XP Pro Service Pack 2 without smilies :-P Everything is theoretically possible, until it's done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. -- Robert A. Heinlein ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
