Re: Any experience with "The Last One"?

From: Richard Heathfield (dontmail_at_address.co.uk.invalid)
Date: 11/29/03 

Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 15:38:36 +0000 (UTC)

Stan Barr wrote:

> On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 09:16:30 +0000 (UTC), Richard Heathfield
> <dontmail@address.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
>>Gerry Quinn wrote:
>>
>>> Sure, but they don't produce software of equal quality.
>>
>>You can say that again. My LAN currently has four machines connected to
>>it. Two of them run commercial OSs, and two run hobbyist OSs. The hobbyist
>>OSs work fine. The commercial OSs frequently crash.
>>
>>Not all hobbyist software is good quality, of course. But don't make the
>>mistake of thinking that all commercial software is good quality either.
>
> I concur. I've got 6 machines on my LAN - 1 x Windows98, 1 x MacOs 8.6,
> 3 x Linux and 1 x Native Oberon. I spend more time and effort keeping
> that one Windows machine running properly than all the others put
> together.
>
> It's latest trick today: I booted up this morning and my keyboard has
> reverted
> back to US - again! Perhaps I should upgrade to XP...

Downgrade, you mean. I refuse to run XP at home. Heap of^W^WWell, up to you
of course. I've used both, and IMHO 98 offers a much lower risk to your
blood-pressure. 

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