Andy Kunz wrote:
>
> At 05:13 PM 10/27/1999 -0400, you wrote:
> >Well, if you can get it used then it'll be cheaper, but if you want a
> >new copy it's the same cost as win98.  Is there a reason to go with 95
> >as opposed to 98?
>
> Yes, it's much more reliable.  Also more secure - you should see how many
> messages I get from M$ about holes in their products, esp NT and 98 and
> related apps (like Internet Exploder).
>
> Andy

You see... first I got *no* problem at all with DOS (take 5 minutes to
install, including the hard disk formatting), no abends, no reboots, no
crashes, then I was forced to go to Win3 then 3.11 (1 hour install),
then some maniac thought that a machine full of
"dont-know-why-my-hard-disk-has-so-many-files" would run better, (it
took 2 hours to install) and suddenly you got 19600 unknown files at
your skinny hard disk, and every 5 minutes the machine got hungry asking
"Insert Disk #74 at disk A:", and well, when things start to get 30%
operational (what would be a complete success), and everyone bought a
bigger hard disk (1GB) the same maniac thought that was time to
literally mess with everyone's peace of mind, and convinced the world
that he fixed all the problems with a new platform version, and guess
what? as a fantastic reaction lots of people believed in him, even when
his own nationwide TV product presentation marvelously crashed live on
TV... is that a formula to get rich very fast? or what?  Ok, why all of
this? just because I tried to install Win98 3 times, the first one took
just 4 hours to update all my disks, and it just crashed at reboot (you
can't imagine the little work I had to fix it and back to Win95,
right?), the second was a fresh clean HD, it rebooted the machine
automatically 18 times and never finished the installation... (I had an
ethernet card PNP that Win98 simply could not understand what to do
with), the third was in a different machine, but then we realized that
40% of the programs just don't run even being said that all Win95 progs
run in Win98.  We paid $6500 for a windows program in 1996, it can't
recognize printers list in W95 or W98... so, you tell me, would you take
a 747 flight with the auto pilot and navigation system controlled by
Windows98?  "Here is the captain speaking, we are at 30,000 ft and
flying at 600mph, but our landing will be delayed because a little
technical problem... by the way, somebody aboard has the WIndows98
emergency boot diskette?"

Hey Bill, I admire you and all, but why it doesn't work and crash when
you most need it working?