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yes, platform wars are always funny. PDP11's will oust the mainframes, VAX/VMS will do in the PDP's, UNIX will take out everyone, DOS will overcome, MAC will kill DOS, OS/2 will - ok it didn't, Windows will run over MAC, Linux will do something, OSX will do something..., Netscape will do in IE, IE will be at the basis of a suit, Firefox will make some folks happy..... Basically choices make some people happy, and some people are ok with status quo. The guy who invents the new hammer is unhappy with the old hammer, but the carpenter who is using the old hammer is making do and using it and making stuff...
So anyway. I still have WIN98SE on a PII email/browser laptop. works fine, did all of the patches before that version went unsupported, the inlaws are using it and not having any issues.
I have WIN2K PRO on my desktop. Have more applications than you can shake a stick at, works fine.
I have WIN XP HE on the laptop I'm typing on right now, it's wireless 802.11A - shares the networked printer and the pipe that the above systems do, works fine.
Have a system for our son, WIN XP PRO - uses office for teachers and students, Dreamweaver suite, and who knows what else, works fine...
Oh and we have a large antenna on an 802.11B WAP to share a signal with my neighboor across the street who is running a bridge and a router behind that so he can run two computers on my cable internet... works fine...
And, my wife brings her laptop home from her office, and is able to print at home (as well as at the office when at the office, duh...) as well as use the pipe.
And I have a laptop from my real job, it works wired and wireless at work, and it works wired and wireless at home, and at my dad's house too...
And my personal laptop works at Dad's too...
And both laptops work at Holiday Inn and others places too.
and... once in awhile when I have about 10 open programs on my laptop XP Home, it will lockup, and I do a reboot... and all is good.
I'm happy with my setup, it does what I need to get done.
Sometimes I think computers are like cars, and vice versa. Sometimes you do all of things you are supposed to do to take care of them and make them work correctly, and they do. However, sometimes they don't!
Just an old programmers viewpoint...
, Mon, 19 Feb 2007 03:45:12
, Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:24:39
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