Re: I want a computer I can USE !!!!

[thanatoid]

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@soft255.demon.co.uk> wrote in
news:AtFxddetGH8LFwE4@soft255.demon.co.uk:

> In message <Xns9D796F7BB822thanexit@188.40.43.230>,
> thanatoid <waiting@the.exit.invalid> writes:
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>>have to do with some programs I installed. If I find a
>>program that doesn't run under Win98SELite, I find an
>>alternative.
>
> Do you always succeed though?

I can't remember /not/ succeeding, let's put it this way.
Very new hardware with only XP + drivers is the exception, of
course, as mentioned in the OP.

<SNIP>

>>Few have figured out that you don't need ANY MS software
>>except the OS, if that's what you're stuck with. I read
>>somewhere there is still code from the 80's in Vista. There
>>may well be.
>
> That's not necessarily a bad thing! It's probably the code
> that works most reliably and economically.

VERY theoretically, yes, but probably not when it's part of an
OS that's supposed to run machines built in 2010.

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What IS this crap above?




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