Hello Bob,

Friday, September 29, 2000, 12:42:21, you wrote:

BA> The more different software installed the more likely the machine is to get
BA> gummed up. To give you an idea of how bad it can be when you are trying to
BA> support software that has been developed over the last n > 15 years, here is
BA> a _subset_ of what is on my machine. It takes _forever_ to boot!

Win 98SE
Protel 99SE SP5
Office 2K (the full 4CD pack)
Delphi 5.0 (Pro)
Visual Studio 6 (Enterprise)
Personal Web Server
PIC Dev tools
AVR Dev tools
Winamp
Winrar
WinZip
WinAce
Ultraedit 32
Unreal T
Quake 3
Carmageddon TDR2000
Caramgeddon 2
Star Wars Pod Racer
Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev
Acrobat 4
PsiWin
Adobe Photoshop 5
Paint Shop pro 6

This is just my machine at work. It's now in serious bpl (Borland
Package Library) hell. ASP Express converted my nice COM to COM+, hmm
now all my CORBA apps are a bit.... Time to format c:




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From Jamie Dainton
Friday, September 29, 2000 14:04:22
The Bat! 1.47 Beta/5
Windows 98 4.10 2222

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