RE: tlug: FW: Windows 95

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 27 May 1998, Tim Meggs wrote:

> There was a time there it was dying a few times a day.   Not a single one of
> the I-love-NT-gurus had any idea how to make it more stable - short of
> upgrading to Serv Pack 3, or bumping the mem up to 128 from 64.    
> Wonder if I would ever have thought of either of those two solutions :P

what are you doing on this machine that requires so much ram?

> > However, MS kept plugging away at it
> > and eventually produced a Windows that was superior to MacOS in many areas,
> > and inferior in few.  Now it's Apple that is playing technology catch-up.
> 
> If this weren't a Linux list i'd take exception to the above.   

I wouldn't -- at least I can get to a command prompt in Win95.  The
concept of a command prompt is completely foreign to MacOS.  I think that
Win95 has better hardware configuration - at least you can customize some
settings, etc, whereas macintosh stuff is all PnP - if you plug it in, and
it doesn't play, you're pretty much hosed.

Oh well, PPC-linux is getting better every day...

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