Re: Ha. Low end ethernet routers

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:15:47 GMT, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>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

Joerg, What version of Windows are you using?

I've been on Win2K for at least three years now and, except for some
initial hardware driver issues, I've been trouble free. (Now running
Win2K/SP4.)

The only reboots have been those required by new software
installations... like 55 days since last reboot ;-)

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