Re: PC or Mac?

["Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@attglobal.net>]

"Barry Allen" <TheFlash@fast.net> wrote in message
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> In article <3c4f3780_3@news3.prserv.net>, "Tom Zuchowski"
> <tzuchow@attglobal.net> wrote:
>
>
> > You are being fairly misleading by using the statement "Windows 9x." The
> > various flavors of Windows 9x/ME varied considerably in their stability,
> > with 95SR1 probably being the worst and 98SR2 being by far the most
stable
> > of the lot.
>
> This is what always got me about any "Service Release" v.x.
>
> Just about the time we'd get NT 4.0.x semi-stable (that in itself is a
> joke), another service release/pack/patch came out we had to apply to fix
> another one of Microsoft's screw ups.

Actually, I totally agree with you. The single most moronic thing that
Microsoft has ever done was do away with version numbering. And Microsoft
has done a LOT of really dumb stuff.



> They write bad code. Period. They always have and they always will,
because
> people buy their trash *no matter what*.

No argument from me.


> >I go for many months at a time without seeing ANY problem on my
> > 98SR2 system.
>
> Good for you. You're the exception not the rule.

I rather strongly believe that you are mistaken about that, at least as far
as 98SR2 users are concerned. I know a lot of computer hobbyists, and the
only people I know who regularly have problems are Athlon users who do a lot
of hardware and software tinkering with their homebuilt machines.


> You obviously don't spend a lot of time in the Macintosh world.

Good heavens, no. I chose my path back when an equivalent Mac cost THREE
TIMES as much as the 486 I bought as my first PC, and I never looked back.

Tom Zuchowski