Author: Pete Galati
Date: 11:05:32 01/11/01
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On January 11, 2001 at 10:49:33, stuart taylor wrote: >On January 11, 2001 at 00:38:00, Pete Galati wrote: > >>On January 10, 2001 at 21:26:42, Wayne Lowrance wrote: >> >>>I have had very nice e-mail discussions with Christophe regarding crashes I have >>>had while running Tigers(s) on ME. Christophe has informed me that he knows of >>>no issues with Tiger and the ME platform. >>> >>>That being the case then I would like to hear from others using ME. I can not >>>fault the Computer and yet The program has been given a clean bill of health. >>> >>>I had a issue with ME and Fritz6 that was resolved very promptly from T-note on >>>ChessBase and now Fritz6 run very clean. >>>I want to get to the bottom of it (I will) but I need help, please >>> >>>Thanks >>> >>>Wayne >> >>This new computer came with Windows ME installed on it, and I have not had any >>conflicts with any Chess programs yet. Winboard runs just fine, same with >>Junior6, and I didn't have to use Steve's T-notes fix. So far all of my >>Winboard engines have worked without conflict, but admitedly there aren't many >>yet (I plan to keep it that way). So, I don't have Tiger, but there are no >>Chess program problems that I know of. >> >>BUT, there's no question in my mind that this is the worst OS that MS has ever >>put out. It's bloatware to an extreme, and it doesn't even run some of their >>OWN programs that were designed for Windows 98 but came loaded on the computer. >>It's more crap fromMicrosoft that they released at least a year before they had >>a ready product. >> >>If you got Windows98 and you're thinking of upgrading to Windows ME, it's a very >>bad idea IMO. >> >>Pete > >So which is the best windows version available now? >S.Taylor I'm certainly no expert, but for me Windows 98 was very stabile, but also rather bloated. My favorite was Windows for Workgroups sitting on Dos 6.22 because my old computer originally came with 90mhz and 24mb mem, and it was really fast running WFW. WFW never once crashed, never. But all the Chess programs were being written for 32 OS like Win95. 95 wasn't so good, by 1999 new browsers were crashing that one all the time. That same computer needed 64mb mem to run not so fast with Windows98, that's gotta tell you something. But at least Win98 was stabile, almost never crashed. Pete
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