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thanatoid
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"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in
news:AtFxddetGH8LFwE4@soft255.demon.co.uk:
> In message ,
> thanatoid writes:
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>>have to do with some programs I installed. If I find a
>>program that doesn't run under Win98SELite, I find an
>>alternative.
>
> Do you always succeed though?
I can't remember /not/ succeeding, let's put it this way.
Very new hardware with only XP + drivers is the exception, of
course, as mentioned in the OP.
>>Few have figured out that you don't need ANY MS software
>>except the OS, if that's what you're stuck with. I read
>>somewhere there is still code from the 80's in Vista. There
>>may well be.
>
> That's not necessarily a bad thing! It's probably the code
> that works most reliably and economically.
VERY theoretically, yes, but probably not when it's part of an
OS that's supposed to run machines built in 2010.
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What IS this crap above?
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time to pause and reflect."
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news:AtFxddetGH8LFwE4@soft255.demon.co.uk:
> In message ,
> thanatoid writes:
> []
>>have to do with some programs I installed. If I find a
>>program that doesn't run under Win98SELite, I find an
>>alternative.
>
> Do you always succeed though?
I can't remember /not/ succeeding, let's put it this way.
Very new hardware with only XP + drivers is the exception, of
course, as mentioned in the OP.
>>Few have figured out that you don't need ANY MS software
>>except the OS, if that's what you're stuck with. I read
>>somewhere there is still code from the 80's in Vista. There
>>may well be.
>
> That's not necessarily a bad thing! It's probably the code
> that works most reliably and economically.
VERY theoretically, yes, but probably not when it's part of an
OS that's supposed to run machines built in 2010.
> []
> []
What IS this crap above?
--
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is
time to pause and reflect."
- Mark Twain