At 19:35 8/10/97 -0700, you wrote:
>On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Andy Kunz wrote:
>
>> >        My computers average uptimes of at least a month,
>> My one Windows machine stays up for months on end.  The other (the laptop)
>> is on as needed (usually 8-10 hours per day).  The other is off for weeks
>> on end.  My Linux machine gets reset regularly - at least once a week.
>
>        My Windows 95 machines (Pentium 200, 64mb) have crashed from
>clicking the start button.
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Philip Lalone
Alpha-X Development - Professional Web Design (http://www.alphax.com)

Major snips and hacks

Ok Fine,,, now that we know windows is all bad

I've a laptop NT 4.0, an old Dell 90,  Win95 and an ALR 486 33 with 3.11
and one intell motherboard running an older version of Linux.

They all run fine,,, except for the laptop, none get turned off.  Except
for new programs being installed, written by people who think windows needs
an autoboot built into all applications (random) and the fact our network
manager can't seem to get Novell to run more than 2 weeks at a shot, my
machines don't crash.  I've had hardware failures, but just like the old
days, you just fix them, and the problem goes away.  New software is the
pits, and yes, the os shouldn't be that easily trashed by a program.  Just
treat the sucker like we did back in the old days of OS-8, and RDOS, test
the install, fix the problems and stuff seems to work just fine.  Now,
having said that, if you wanted to treat the things like a commadore 64 and
just get away with chucking a disk at the drive and having it work, well,,,
it ain't here yet.  (on my wish list!!!)



'Grif' N7IVS