Note that XP is actually NT 5 which is a different code line than Win
98..

Have you tried to comprate XP with NT 4 ?

Tal

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> [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike Singer
> Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 2:50 AM
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: [OT]: Microsoft's attempt to get people with 1GHz+ machines
>
>
> William Chops Westfield wrote:
> > Roman wrote:
> > > Having spent a few days on the holidays playing with a friends new
> PC
> > > running windows XP, again it is noticeably slower than my win98
> > > system, even though it has more ram and a faster processor.
> >
> > Well, presumably XP and ME were microsoft's lasp gasp
> attempt to get
> > people with 1GHz+ machines to buy new (faster) ones to make
> up for the
> > speed loss, thus improving the US economy and making a
> bunch of people
> > a bunch of money.  It doesn't seem to have worked, though.
> My 400MHz
> > machines still seem to be running most applications just fine, not
> > that I'm what the industry would call a power user ("gee, I guess a
> > windows PC makes an OK X terminal." :-)
>
>    Are you sure Intel is a part of Microsoft, or Taiwanese
> motherboard manufactures or Samsung - main RAM player?
>
>    Mike.
>
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