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Has microsoft done anything good for the computer industry?
Dark_Me:
Yeah, that sucks. Thing is nowdays that hardware and OS are made by different companies so it shouldn't matter to the hardware companies. So then why are computers made for Windows? Hmm, I smell anti-trust in the wind. Interestingly XP runs fine... if, like me you have a top of the line box. An OS's stability shouldn't be reliant on the hardware it's running, speed yes, but not hardware, that's just stupid. How would you even manage it?
Aloone_Jonez:
--- Quote from: Dark_ME ---An OS's stability shouldn't be reliant on the hardware it's running
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That's just the way it is, if you run any OS on crappy cheap and nasty hardware you shouldn't expect it to be reliable, an OS is only as good as the hardware and vice versa.
Dark_Me:
I should have clarified more. What I meant was (with Windows) you have to have the very best hardware or close for it to work properly. Such as with my comps, I got one that's all right (2.3 GHz 256MB RAM) and Windows earns it's bad reputation on that but on my new box, which is pretty good (3GHz 512MB RAM), it runs like a dream. I understand that hardware relates to the OS but it should not relate to the extent that it does with Windows.
187nimd4:
I totally agree, of course .. it is like winamp: version 2 would load blazing fast, then they added 'eyecandy' and version 5 even without everything has trouble loading in the new skin mode, not classic mode: and even without version 2, just looking at version 5 in classic and other mode the difference can be seen; same thing with windows: just an example of bad programming (on a global scale); now this MUST be obvious to all but the blind ;) .. sry off topic.
MarathoN:
--- Quote from: Dark_Me ---I should have clarified more. What I meant was (with Windows) you have to have the very best hardware or close for it to work properly. Such as with my comps, I got one that's all right (2.3 GHz 256MB RAM) and Windows earns it's bad reputation on that but on my new box, which is pretty good (3GHz 512MB RAM), it runs like a dream. I understand that hardware relates to the OS but it should not relate to the extent that it does with Windows.
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I disagree, I run win2k on a 4 year old machine (AMD Athlon XP 1800+ 1.53ghz, 512mb pc2100 ram) and it runs like a dream, no speed problems at all.
But when I tried it on xp, it was sooo slow and unbearable that I had to uninstall xp in the end, couldn't put up with it any longer. :rolleyes:
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