From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 19 02:38:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA05888 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 02:38:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA05883 for ; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 02:38:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA04442; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 10:35:10 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 10:35:09 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: jack cc: Nate Williams , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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