Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 23:15:09 12/06/99
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On December 07, 1999 at 00:23:40, Christophe Theron wrote: >On December 06, 1999 at 17:47:56, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On December 05, 1999 at 21:11:36, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On December 05, 1999 at 16:42:55, Christophe Theron wrote: >>> > >(snip) > >>>>The problem with Microsoft is that you'll never get a reliable operating system: >>>>you get a system that almost works, but has many bugs. When you want to fix >>>>them, you have to get the next version of the OS, which is fatter, does not run >>>>anymore on your computer (allegedly because your 1 year old computer is already >>>>outdated) and brings a lot more bugs than what it fixes. >>>> >>>>I don't want to be part of this crazyness. But nobody offers an alternative. >>>> Christophe >> >>I think Christophe mentions a good point here. With the release of >>windows2000 m$ clearly is gonna buy linux some time to improve, >>as the beta releases of windows2000, >>I killed directly after i saw that they were eating over 60mb of my >>RAM... ...so basically needing machines with like 256mb at least... >>...they should buy some stocks in that area... > > >I knew that. I have read nothing about Win2000, but my guess was that it would >take more RAM and more disk space. > >Consider that Microsoft earns money each time a PC is sold, because most PCs >come with Windows. They make several (hundreds?) million dollars with this. So >it's their interest to force you to buy a new computer each year. > >A basic install of W95B takes about 80Mb on my computers. W98 takes about 200Mb. >I guess W2000 will take something like 400 to 600Mb? > >With W95B, 16Mb of memory is the minimum (well I run it on a 5Mb computer, but >it's really slow). With W98, I noticed 32Mb was the minimum. > >It sounds logical that 64Mb is the minimum for W2000. > >I bet W2000 on a 450MHz computer is as slow as W95B on a 100MHz computer. > >I bet that to do simple word processing tasks on W2000 you need at least a >450MHz computer equipped with 128Mb of RAM. > >Nice move, Micro$oft! > >I guess their biggest technical problem when they think about a new OS is: "what >could we load in memory at boot this time to take twice the memory size needed >by our former OS?". > >That's why we need an alternative OS as soon as possible. But something >everybody can use! > > > > Christophe I have a hard time believing that people can complain about an operating system taking up 200 megs. Do a full install of Red Hat. That will blow a gigabyte, no problem. Even your average game today (first-person 3D games, not chess software ;-) take more than 200 megs today. A 14 gig drive is what, $170 US? So 200 megs?... big deal. Dave
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