Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2974 mails)

["Jethro Cramp" <jsc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thursday, February 01, 2001 5:58 AM, Doug Finch ruminated:

>That's right, if I have Photoshop, Homesite, two browsers, and my
>email running for the duration of (1) work-day, I usually have a failure
due
>to lack of RAM (128mb).  I have never had that problem with Linux.

<FAIRNESS ON>
First up to use the words of a fellow poster on this thread 'On my system
windows is on borrowed time'. Secondly since it first came out until late
1999 I used WINNT on my desktop and at the sametime it acted as a print and
file server for my small office (2 other computers). For most of that time
it worked quite well needing to be re-booted about once a week (not good,
but a hell of a lot better than re-booting a couple of times a day inder
Win9x). I did eventually develop problems when M$ software bloat and
'service packs' started to bite; I upgraded the memory from 64MB to 128MB,
removed the 'service packs' and everything was back to normal.

Now I wouldn't want to go back to that (I like my command line et al.) but I
do not understand how anyone anywhere used win9x for work when NT was
available as a viable alternative. OK NT didn't support all the hardware
under the sun and getting games to run under NT can best be described as
interesting, but hey we are talking about productivity and not
entertainment.
<FAIRNESS OFF>

That said 'Down with the evil empire! All power to the mighty penguin!'


Jethro