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Argent Stonecutter

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09-26-2009 17:07

From: Briana Dawson

Next thing you know, you'll be saying that your Macs run System 6.5 + Multifinder and that you are still playing Dark Castle.

Don't be silly, the pre-OSX Mac OS is more like Windows 3.11... Mac OS 9 made Windows 95 look sophisticated.

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Argent Stonecutter

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09-26-2009 17:08

From: Milla Janick

No drivers for modern graphics adapters.

Yeh, I have to put up with a gf7900. Woe is me.

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Imnotgoing Sideways

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09-26-2009 17:55

My view on MS Windows history:

Win 3.1 - FAIL

Win 3.11 - PASS

Win95 - FAIL

Win98 - PASS

WinME - FAIL

WinXP - PASS

WinVista - FAIL

Win7 - PASS

.... Anyone seeing a pattern here? (^_^)

And, I don't consider Win2K to be a "desktop" windows. It was more the early-adopt-ish Microsoft project to put their desktop-like tools to work on an NT based kernel. (^_^)

It's one thing to recognize failure in technology. It's another to fail to recognize technological advancements. XP was Microsoft's way of saying, "Here, we finally wedged NT onto the desktop!" Win2K was best used for servers or as a release candidate for XP. (^_^)y

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Argent Stonecutter

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09-26-2009 18:20

From: Imnotgoing Sideways

And, I don't consider Win2K to be a "desktop" windows.

Windows XP was basically Windows 2000 R2.

From: someone

It was more the early-adopt-ish Microsoft project to put their desktop-like tools to work on an NT based kernel. (^_^)

You're confusing XP and NT4. NT4 was where they put the Windows 9x desktop on Windows NT. Windows 2000 had a new driver framework and support for Windows 9x drivers, but was otherwise pretty much the same as NT4. Windows XP was Windows 2000 with a fisher-price color scheme. 2000 was the last decent version of Windows, everything since has been about "managing expectations".

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Milla Janick

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09-26-2009 18:20

From: Imnotgoing Sideways

Win95 - FAIL

How do you figure that?

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Veritable Quandry

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09-26-2009 18:54

Windows 95 was never that great to me...it and the first 98 had the most BSOD/Crash issues I've had with Windows. 98 SE was a good, stable OS. I also liked using W2K as a desktop OS until after XP SP2.

As for MAC OS, I still have a 7.6 laptop running around, in case I need to bring down an alien fleet with a rapidly-coded virus targeting their shield generators. You never know.

Brenda Connolly

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09-26-2009 18:57

From: Veritable Quandry

Windows 95 was never that great to me...it and the first 98 had the most BSOD/Crash issues I've had with Windows. 98 SE was a good, stable OS. I also liked using W2K as a desktop OS until after XP SP2.

As for MAC OS, I still have a 7.6 laptop running around, in case I need to bring down an alien fleet with a rapidly-coded virus targeting their shield generators. You never know.

It's comforting to know that you know how to bring those sons of bitches down.

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09-26-2009 19:04

From: Veritable Quandry

As for MAC OS, I still have a 7.6 laptop running around, in case I need to bring down an alien fleet with a rapidly-coded virus targeting their shield generators. You never know.

Thank god, someone's thinking ahead! Keep watching the skies, friend!

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Milla Janick

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09-26-2009 19:07

From: Veritable Quandry

As for MAC OS, I still have a 7.6 laptop running around, in case I need to bring down an alien fleet with a rapidly-coded virus targeting their shield generators. You never know.

As long as those aliens are using Zmodem.

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SuezanneC Baskerville

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09-26-2009 20:55

I like Win-ME. It worked fine on my system. I liked the way it looked. I liked the way the search function worked - it thought I wanted to look for files on my hard drive, which is always what I wanted it to do.

Of course, I'm spending part of Saturday night checking out a demo of Proton Media's ProtoSphere, a 3D business meeting system that has just integrated Microsoft Sharepoint into it's system. That might suggest that my tastes are a bit skewed.

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Argent Stonecutter

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09-26-2009 20:58

Sharepoint.

Oh god, the burning.

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Ciaran Laval

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09-27-2009 05:31

http://www.pcworld.com/article/125772-2/the_25_worst_tech_products_of_all_time.html

Windows ME comes number four in that list!

Windows 98 wasn't too clever until they fixed it with Windows 98 SE.

Vladi Hazelnut

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09-27-2009 10:20

Using windows 7 RC and love it. Although to be honest layout wise it is very much like vista. If you don't like navigating around vista you most likely won't be pleased with windows 7. I think basically it was the next version of Vista, but they renamed it because of all the bad press vista got.

I had vista basic on my Emachine when I got it and I didn't mind it to be honest. I liked it better than XP. That being said windows 7 is much faster on my computer. I recently swapped motherboards in my computer and was having problems with drivers for windows 7 and rolled back to vista to see if I could clear it up. I was amazed at how much slower it was, even with the upgrades to my computer. I went from 1 gig of ram and a sempron 2.2 single core to 3 gigs of ram and an Athlon II X2 dual core running at 3.0 gigs.

I was getting like 30 frames per second in second life at average with vista, and the absolute best I could get was around 60. I got my driver situation cleared up and reinstalled windows 7 32 bit. My frame rates went up drastically! My average is somewhere around 50 fps with the top end of 195 fps in some places!!!!! Plus my computer in general is a bit snappier with 7 installed.

Windows 7 gets a huge thumbs up from me, but like all other new OS's you may have driver issues with some hardware. Nowhere near as bad as with vista though I bet. There are already a ton of drivers out there for 7, and most vista drivers work perfectly fine.

And count me as another one that didn't mind ME. Window 98 and ME worked the best for me. I got screwed into using XP and was not that impressed with it.

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Argent Stonecutter Emergency Mustelid Join date: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 20,263	09-26-2009 17:07 From: Briana Dawson Next thing you know, you'll be saying that your Macs run System 6.5 + Multifinder and that you are still playing Dark Castle. Don't be silly, the pre-OSX Mac OS is more like Windows 3.11... Mac OS 9 made Windows 95 look sophisticated. _____________________ Argent Stonecutter - http://globalcausalityviolation.blogspot.com/ "And now I'm going to show you something really cool." Skyhook Station - http://xrl.us/skyhook23 Coonspiracy Store - http://xrl.us/coonstore
Argent Stonecutter Emergency Mustelid Join date: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 20,263	09-26-2009 17:08 From: Milla Janick No drivers for modern graphics adapters. Yeh, I have to put up with a gf7900. Woe is me. _____________________ Argent Stonecutter - http://globalcausalityviolation.blogspot.com/ "And now I'm going to show you something really cool." Skyhook Station - http://xrl.us/skyhook23 Coonspiracy Store - http://xrl.us/coonstore
Imnotgoing Sideways Can't outlaw cute! =^-^= Join date: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 4,694	09-26-2009 17:55 My view on MS Windows history: Win 3.1 - FAIL Win 3.11 - PASS Win95 - FAIL Win98 - PASS WinME - FAIL WinXP - PASS WinVista - FAIL Win7 - PASS .... Anyone seeing a pattern here? (^_^) And, I don't consider Win2K to be a "desktop" windows. It was more the early-adopt-ish Microsoft project to put their desktop-like tools to work on an NT based kernel. (^_^) It's one thing to recognize failure in technology. It's another to fail to recognize technological advancements. XP was Microsoft's way of saying, "Here, we finally wedged NT onto the desktop!" Win2K was best used for servers or as a release candidate for XP. (^_^)y _____________________ Somewhere in this world; there is someone having some good clean fun doing the one thing you hate the most. (^_^)y http://slurl.com/secondlife/Ferguson/54/237/94
Argent Stonecutter Emergency Mustelid Join date: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 20,263	09-26-2009 18:20 From: Imnotgoing Sideways And, I don't consider Win2K to be a "desktop" windows. Windows XP was basically Windows 2000 R2. From: someone It was more the early-adopt-ish Microsoft project to put their desktop-like tools to work on an NT based kernel. (^_^) You're confusing XP and NT4. NT4 was where they put the Windows 9x desktop on Windows NT. Windows 2000 had a new driver framework and support for Windows 9x drivers, but was otherwise pretty much the same as NT4. Windows XP was Windows 2000 with a fisher-price color scheme. 2000 was the last decent version of Windows, everything since has been about "managing expectations". _____________________ Argent Stonecutter - http://globalcausalityviolation.blogspot.com/ "And now I'm going to show you something really cool." Skyhook Station - http://xrl.us/skyhook23 Coonspiracy Store - http://xrl.us/coonstore
Milla Janick Empress Of The Universe Join date: 2 Jan 2008 Posts: 3,075	09-26-2009 18:20 From: Imnotgoing Sideways Win95 - FAIL How do you figure that? _____________________ http://www.avatarsunited.com/avatars/milla-janick All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain...
Veritable Quandry Meddling kid. Join date: 23 May 2008 Posts: 519	09-26-2009 18:54 Windows 95 was never that great to me...it and the first 98 had the most BSOD/Crash issues I've had with Windows. 98 SE was a good, stable OS. I also liked using W2K as a desktop OS until after XP SP2. As for MAC OS, I still have a 7.6 laptop running around, in case I need to bring down an alien fleet with a rapidly-coded virus targeting their shield generators. You never know.
Brenda Connolly Un United Avatar Join date: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 25,000	09-26-2009 18:57 From: Veritable Quandry Windows 95 was never that great to me...it and the first 98 had the most BSOD/Crash issues I've had with Windows. 98 SE was a good, stable OS. I also liked using W2K as a desktop OS until after XP SP2. As for MAC OS, I still have a 7.6 laptop running around, in case I need to bring down an alien fleet with a rapidly-coded virus targeting their shield generators. You never know. It's comforting to know that you know how to bring those sons of bitches down. _____________________ Don't you ever try to look behind my eyes. You don't want to know what they have seen. http://brenda-connolly.blogspot.com
Argent Stonecutter Emergency Mustelid Join date: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 20,263	09-26-2009 19:04 From: Veritable Quandry As for MAC OS, I still have a 7.6 laptop running around, in case I need to bring down an alien fleet with a rapidly-coded virus targeting their shield generators. You never know. Thank god, someone's thinking ahead! Keep watching the skies, friend! _____________________ Argent Stonecutter - http://globalcausalityviolation.blogspot.com/ "And now I'm going to show you something really cool." Skyhook Station - http://xrl.us/skyhook23 Coonspiracy Store - http://xrl.us/coonstore
Milla Janick Empress Of The Universe Join date: 2 Jan 2008 Posts: 3,075	09-26-2009 19:07 From: Veritable Quandry As for MAC OS, I still have a 7.6 laptop running around, in case I need to bring down an alien fleet with a rapidly-coded virus targeting their shield generators. You never know. As long as those aliens are using Zmodem. _____________________ http://www.avatarsunited.com/avatars/milla-janick All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain...
SuezanneC Baskerville Forums Rock! Join date: 22 Dec 2003 Posts: 14,229	09-26-2009 20:55 I like Win-ME. It worked fine on my system. I liked the way it looked. I liked the way the search function worked - it thought I wanted to look for files on my hard drive, which is always what I wanted it to do. Of course, I'm spending part of Saturday night checking out a demo of Proton Media's ProtoSphere, a 3D business meeting system that has just integrated Microsoft Sharepoint into it's system. That might suggest that my tastes are a bit skewed. _____________________ - So long to these forums, the vBulletin forums that used to be at forums.secondlife.com. I will miss them. I can be found on the web by searching for "SuezanneC Baskerville", or go to http://www.google.com/profiles/suezanne - http://lindenlab.tribe.net/ created on 11/19/03. Members: Ben, Catherine, Colin, Cory, Dan, Doug, Jim, Philip, Phoenix, Richard, Robin, and Ryan -
Argent Stonecutter Emergency Mustelid Join date: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 20,263	09-26-2009 20:58 Sharepoint. Oh god, the burning. _____________________ Argent Stonecutter - http://globalcausalityviolation.blogspot.com/ "And now I'm going to show you something really cool." Skyhook Station - http://xrl.us/skyhook23 Coonspiracy Store - http://xrl.us/coonstore
Ciaran Laval Mostly Harmless Join date: 11 Mar 2007 Posts: 7,951	09-27-2009 05:31 http://www.pcworld.com/article/125772-2/the_25_worst_tech_products_of_all_time.html Windows ME comes number four in that list! Windows 98 wasn't too clever until they fixed it with Windows 98 SE.
Vladi Hazelnut Registered User Join date: 8 Dec 2008 Posts: 6	09-27-2009 10:20 Using windows 7 RC and love it. Although to be honest layout wise it is very much like vista. If you don't like navigating around vista you most likely won't be pleased with windows 7. I think basically it was the next version of Vista, but they renamed it because of all the bad press vista got. I had vista basic on my Emachine when I got it and I didn't mind it to be honest. I liked it better than XP. That being said windows 7 is much faster on my computer. I recently swapped motherboards in my computer and was having problems with drivers for windows 7 and rolled back to vista to see if I could clear it up. I was amazed at how much slower it was, even with the upgrades to my computer. I went from 1 gig of ram and a sempron 2.2 single core to 3 gigs of ram and an Athlon II X2 dual core running at 3.0 gigs. I was getting like 30 frames per second in second life at average with vista, and the absolute best I could get was around 60. I got my driver situation cleared up and reinstalled windows 7 32 bit. My frame rates went up drastically! My average is somewhere around 50 fps with the top end of 195 fps in some places!!!!! Plus my computer in general is a bit snappier with 7 installed. Windows 7 gets a huge thumbs up from me, but like all other new OS's you may have driver issues with some hardware. Nowhere near as bad as with vista though I bet. There are already a ton of drivers out there for 7, and most vista drivers work perfectly fine. And count me as another one that didn't mind ME. Window 98 and ME worked the best for me. I got screwed into using XP and was not that impressed with it.

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