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Thread ID: 27206	2002-11-17 00:06:00	Dumping XP going back to 98SE	longbrim (2545)	Press F1

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99108	2002-11-20 22:05:00	Actually, the comment made to me by my friend (mentioned in previous post) was that he liked XP (Already on his New PC - His old one had 98SE) was that he like everything being right there for him, right under his nose. Sounds like being roofus might have been right. Look, I dont wanna start a flame war. Different Strokes for different folks, I think it should be left at that.	Chilling_Silence (9)
99109	2002-11-20 22:22:00	> Frame rates, Disk I/Os, Memory access speeds, are all > measurably faster under XP than 9x/ME. Perhaps your > celeron 486 struggled a bit but hey, it's a dog > anyway. Was this a cheap shot at my slug? :O Lo.	Lohsing (219)
99110	2002-11-20 22:22:00	*** NO-ONE is impartial... We've tried and found what we like.. and therefore recomend it Oops that wasn't very impartial coming from a 98SE user now is it? .Clueless	Clueless (181)
99111	2002-11-20 22:55:00	Who cares. It's all just electrons floating around behind a piece of glass and magnetic particles rearranged on a platter.	antmannz (28)
99112	2002-11-20 22:57:00	>NT/2K/XP is fast and stable when configured properly . I'm with you all the way :D I hated when u need to restart the machine everytime u made a small change in 98 and always asks for the 98CD if u installed some new hardware unless you previously dumped those cab files into a folder . Since 2K released before ME, so I skipped ME totally which I'm glad that I did . :^O 2K and XP works fine for me, I haven't restart my XP machine for a month now :D Personally I don't think people with old machines using 95, 98 or ME should upgrade to XP as it will run slower than their previous OS . Eventually people will be forced to use newer OS as the support for older OS is fading each day . . .	SKT174 (1319)
99113	2002-11-20 23:03:00	Yes, For newer Band Spanking new, or any 1Ghz Plus PC's coming out, I think it's perfectly fine to bundle them with XP, but to try and convince my granny running 98SE on a 486DX66 with only 24MB RAM that she needs XP is ludacris! She freaked out the first time she took out a CD from the drive, let alone installing a new OS :p I agree that they can be fast, but then again, so can the others. The boot time of DOS 6 on a 286 that I've left in the hands of a friend would kick the @$$ out of any 3Ghz P4 no matter how much ram you chuck in it! Sometimes simple can be good too...	Chilling_Silence (9)
99114	2002-11-20 23:17:00	> > > Some people like to have things pretty and have > > > everything feed to them (XP) > > 'Feed to them' -negative > > > > Some people like working as fast as they can > even > > it > > > does result in instability issues (win9x) > > 'instability issues' - negative > > > > Some people like to experience something that > > isn't > > > shoved in your face and explore outside the > > square. > > > [also fast] (linux) > > 'outside the square' 'also fast' 'isn't shoved in > your face' -all positive statements. outside the square could be considered a positive or negative statement. Computer geeks were once regarded as outside the square and introverted! > > Impartial??? Biff you failed to notice that i use WinME and not linux, so why would i want to praise an OS that i have had but got rid of and reverted back to a proven but unstable system (according to my analysis) I went back to ME because as i say it is proven. I know how to use it and how to tweak it, it allows me to do the things i wanted to do. Having spent hundreds of dollars on Msoft software i wasn't keen to stay with linux and write off my software. Also linux didn't work with my winmodem. So there ya go a negative statement for linux Also you say that my comment about how XP feeds everything to them is negative. As chilling silence notes, this is what people wanted, hence why it was produced that way, so how can that be a negative statement? Once again i say as everyone else in this thread has stated bar you and another. each to there own	roofus (483)
99115	2002-11-20 23:22:00	> As XP is the 5th generation of NT you'll find it is > very bug free . I think using an OS constructed from a > 32 bit hack of a 16 shell for an 8 Bit OS is way more > buggy (Win 98se) . MACOS is designed for specific hardware and the OS is therefore very integrated between the software and hardware layers . That doesn't stop it from been as buggy as any Microsoft product . And MACOS has developed their OS 10 times now! So that would make it a 10th generation! So your comments regarding that because software has a higher generation factor that it is more likely to be bug free is ludacris .	roofus (483)
99116	2002-11-21 03:32:00	> > As XP is the 5th generation of NT you'll find it > is > > very bug free . I think using an OS constructed from > a > > 32 bit hack of a 16 shell for an 8 Bit OS is way > more > > buggy (Win 98se) . > > MACOS is designed for specific hardware and the OS is > therefore very integrated between the software and > hardware layers . That doesn't stop it from been as > buggy as any Microsoft product . And MACOS has > developed their OS 10 times now! So that would make > it a 10th generation! > > So your comments regarding that because software has > a higher generation factor that it is more likely to > be bug free is ludacris . WOOOOWOOOO!! The flame war train is rolling into town!! Yeeha! People can choose whatever OS they want, the simple fact is that XP is faster and better than any 9x variant . OSX isn't even based on previous versions of MAC OS!	BIFF (1)
99117	2002-11-21 03:44:00	OS flame wars are not productive. Any flame wars are not productive. Nobody changes anyone else's opinion. So why bother?	Graham L (2)
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