Author: Torstein Hall
Date: 13:55:46 10/29/01
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On October 28, 2001 at 12:33:40, Christophe Theron wrote: >On October 28, 2001 at 05:09:41, Thorsten Czub wrote: > >> >>>What I see on today's statistics is: >>> Windows 97.0% >>> MacOS 1.3% >>> Unknown 1.0% >>> Linux 0.7% >>> WebTV 0.3% >> >> >>i do use computers to run my chess programs. >>i do a little internet, typing letters. >> >>i do not need a windows that has ONLY ONE INTEREST: >>to make my machine SLOWER, to increase the amount of resources >>the people need to buy ! >> >>the only intention is do create a reason for the people to buy a faster pc, >>using more ram, bigger hdd and faster cd / dvd. >> >>in the times we had atari ST or amiga or mac, there >>was almost no big hdd, no cd, only discs and the machines worked >>without crashing. >> >>my atari ran weeks, without ever been shut down. >>without any noise, without big booting. without installing programs >>and reboot. >>all this windows stuff is nonsense. >>it began with windows. the whole catastrophy. with an operating system >>melting programs and os together. this is completely nonsense. >>it would be much easier to separate programs and os. each in a directory. >>so that you can reinstall windows/OS whenever you want without the need to >>install 33 or 50 programs again. >> >>windows, this means you lose time because you wait and wait and wait >>until the shit has booted. and when you install any shit, you need to reboot. >>and when the installation fails, it can be your whole windows is broken and you >>need to install os + all programs again, again, again. >> >>you need a new hdd and faster cpu each 1/2 year because next windows is that >>slow that you are forced to upgrade. bill gates is working with the hardware >>producers. he has a contract with seagate, intel, maxtor and ibm to increase the >>hardware power needed. >> >>i will tell you something. in the first moment somebody else >>produces an OS that is fast, compatible with win95 and runs my chess programs, >>i am away. and bill gates can die. i am waiting for this day. >>and i will not buy new windows versions. >> >>my palm, runs in an instant. with 2 micro-cells/batteries, it needs very less >>ram than any windows system and it works. >> >>in beginning days of computers there were many OS. and they all were better than >>microsoft shit. geoworks was an example what you can do with dos. >>novell tried a dos. the atari had a brilliant tos. and many other efforts. >>microsoft was NOT better. microsoft was big shit. from the very beginning. >>there was this need for a hdd to work. without hdd you could not start dos. >>all those commands that were loaded as overlay after the shell had been >>loaded. and windows was a big joke. my atari worked. i used good text and DTP >>programs. richard langs psion chess. with marvellous graphics 3d screen. >> >>in the moment somebody creates an os that emulates win95 and dos but still is >>faster and smaller than windows (its not a problem to write an OS that is >>smaller and faster than windows) and does not need to melt programs and OS the >>way you get a nightmare when windows is broken, in this moment i am away. >>and i am sure, many many many others will follow me. and bill gates is dead. >>and i will wait until this happens. and then this bigger, faster, more resources >>nonsense is over. >> >>even now my palm is the best alternative. i don't wanna have a windows ce >>machines, because this is the same shit that is installed on all my pc's. >> >>the day we will get rid of this bill gates i will make a big party. >>the same party i made when reagan was over and kohl was over and milosevic was >>in den hague. >>we don't need bill gates big, slow and fossile operating systems. i want to >>play chess with my computers, and not waste my time with ONE thought how to >>install the machine. a real computer makes everything itself. and the user is >>not recognizing what is going on. he does not need to know about devices. >>when i drive my car, and people all over the world drive cars, they do not need >>to know how to install a car, how the engine works or how to upgrade. >>they have a key, and they press a button and the car moves. >>there are many different car companies. this guaranties no monopolist >>drives you where HE wants to drive you. > > > >There are ways to avoid buying a bigger PC with each new release of Windows. > >I'm using 98lite with Windows Millennium edition. 98lite removes all the >unwanted stuff from the OS, leaving just what you want. Depending on your needs, >you can leave only the basics of the OS, and Windows ME runs fine with 16Mb RAM, >as good old Windows 95 did. > >As I understand, Windows is not optimized to be small or really fast, it is >optimized to be as flexible as possible. An example of this is the possibility >to add customized submenus to explorer windows for example (WinZIP does that: >when you righ-click on a file, there are menu options to zip or unzip). > >There are "hooks" like that everywhere in the system. That makes it bigger and >slower. > >Also, the PC hardware has certainly been a nightmare to deal with. So many >motherboards and extension cards and peripherals! Windows checks all the >hardware at boot time, and is even able to detect a change and reconfigure >itself. Microsoft did a good job, it's hard to say the opposite here. > >So I can understand it is slow to boot. > >In short, it could be smaller and faster, but probably not much. > >It is bloated, but there are solutions to avoid this. > >My main concern is the control of the information world by a single entity: >Microsoft. I'm not going to repeat here why I'm not pleased by the situation, >but you are right, as soon as we have an alternative, I'll say goodbye to >Windows. > > > > Christophe I do understand your consern about one company controling to much, but I think this issue has a flip side. I think its nice that nearly everybody can run the same programs. You do not need a lot of versions, for a lot of different systems etc. etc. Makes life a lot simpler for a lot of people. Torstein
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