Exactly my opinion too. I won't buy an operating system upgrade. It's far easier to buy a new machine, especially if I still need all the old stuff to work on the old machine. Of course this will eventually help the construction trade because a larger house with more than one computer room is needed. :-) They got me!
I managed to get NT4 server and workstation installed on my HP desktop about a year ago. I didn't really need them but I was doing some self-study with SQL Server. Both are good except, the modem no longer works with NT. Since I'd like to use my PIII 500 for photography stuff, be able to access the web, and play an occasional game that's not over 3 years old, I'll probably slap in the recovery CD and go back to the pre-installed version of Win 98. Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Dayton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "aimcompute" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 12:34 PM Subject: Re[4]: Windows XP - Scary! (Was=3 A OT: A computer question...) > Tom, > > You may have noticed how the amount of support has diminished and the > cost of support has increased. I can't even imagine attempting to > support something on the scale of Windows running on almost any > mish-mashed hardware. Maybe the bigger rejoicing is the ability to > say "Try upgrading, maybe that will fix your problems." Many times it > is a clean install that does the trick. But what a cost to the user > to do a clean install. I bought a whole new laptop (Sony) to have > Win2K pre-installed with all drivers, etc working rather than attempt > to upgrade my older HP laptop to run Win2K. Too many things would > cease to work correctly, especiallly on a laptop. > > > Bruce - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
