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hi,
isnt it time to burn this thread at the stake.......i am sick of it
>From: "terrence d'souza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Does Windows sucks ? True story
>Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 04:27:53 -0700 (PDT)
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>--- Kiran Jonnalagadda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > This was a test comparing various releases of
> > Windows. I think this was
> > just around when Win2k came out. They didn't
> > bother with Linux because
> > the test subject freaked out with just Windows.
> >
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>This is a true story.
>One of our Company secretary has been using
>wordstar and lotus (heavily) for the past 10 yrs.
>He had a 386 4 mb 40mb machine for the past 8
>yrs. Recently his hard disk crashed. The system
>had to be scrapped for obvious reasons. He
>purchased a brand new machine with win and
>office.
>He could not use it at all. After 2 weeks of
>mucking around he could barely use ofice. he is
>using the amdk6ii 450mhz with 64 mb under dos
>with ye old wstar. After 4 months he is now able
>to get around windows but says that his
>productivity is very very limited under windows.
>So howzzat.
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>Crashes: is the hardware malfuntioning. No
>problems under linux (from 486 to athlon with
>assorted disks, graphics etc). However I always
>configure my machine hardware after plenty of
>checking so i think it would be more stable
>anyway. I rebooted windows seven times in a few
>minutes today (after resizing and moving the
>notepad window). KDM / IceWM has not crashed
>since Jan.
>Development: Just finding my feet in KDE & OBERON
>so no comments. However under windows it's blue
>screen all the way (even Delphi). Assembly is the
>same everywhere any way ;-).
>
>rgds
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