Re: Ha. Low end ethernet routers

Hello Andy, 

Funny that, MS Word never crashes on me.


DOS Word did crash on occasion but no more than a couple times a year. WinWord crashes a lot more. The work I do is the same I did in the DOS days, creating module specs with lots of graphics in there. That's when the crashes usually happen.

Oh, and WinWord can't read the old DOS Word files, seems they haven't figured out compatibility. On MS-Works spread*** and database MS did a much better job and consequently I plan to keep using these. Those parts of MS-Works have so far never crashed on me even with files that are very heavy on math. The only puzzler is this: When I do math-heavy stuff on the old DOS machine it runs about as fast as on Windows. But on the Win machine the fan keeps coming on all the time and heats my office, same files, same math. The old DOS laptop doesn't have a fan because it doesn't need it ...


Now I compare what I have achieved with MS compared to what I used to
do. Now MS is more stable than linux, ...


Don't know about Linux but Windows became less stable over time IMHO. It bloated a lot and maybe that's why. WRT to my productivity it is about the same as it was under DOS. Integrating graphics can be done a bit faster in Windows but that is being offset by the hard-reset waits after a crash. Some are really, really long, for example when "WinWord has generated errors and is being debugged" and you can't shut down. To mitigate a bit I save every couple minutes and work with two PCs in parallel.

Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com
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