Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 10:35:09 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: jack <jack@diamond.xtalwind.net> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970419103150.428O-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970419000232.9302B-100000@zeus.xtalwind.net>
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On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, jack wrote: > On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Nate Williams wrote: > > > > You decide between Window 95 and NT by understanding what the product can > > > do and what is expected to be available in the foreseeable future. If you > > > had to > > > reinstall the thing every 3 months there'd be a lot of people using > > > something else > > > > Umm, have you *ever* used Win95 or NT? > > Not if he's lucky. ;-) > > > We *regularly* (easily every 3 months) have to re-install every few > > months (sometimes less than 3). > > One of our most cluefull customers had to format and re-install to > convince 95 he had changed modems. Re-install without a format wouldn't > do it. I have lost count of the number of times that I reinstalled Win95 while I was working at M$. It really is a sad joke of an operating system and is worse than DOS for development. Most of the time a simple re-install is fine but there are times when you just have to shutdown to DOS, deltree windows and start again :-(. I never used NT since it was bigger and slower and our software was supposed to be released for Win95. I am sure it is the same, possibly with a longer mean-time-to-reinstall. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891
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