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Old 06-19-2009, 01:40 PM
BillW50
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Re: W7 stuff

In news:4a3bec5c$0$1637$703f8584@textnews.kpn.nl,
Sjouke Burry typed on Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:51:56 +0200:
> BillW50 wrote:
>> In news:4a3bd2bd$0$1655$703f8584@textnews.kpn.nl,
>> Sjouke Burry typed on Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:02:37 +0200:
>>> AJL wrote:
>>>> John Doue <notwobe******.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I very much doubt any application will run faster on W7 than on
>>>>> XP.
>>>> W7 certainly could be faster than XP. It is possible to write
>>>> faster code. But besides that I imagine that you're pissing into
>>>> the wind. XP will surely go the way of prior OSs. Lets see, are
>>>> there still any W98 diehards out there? Going once, going twice...
>>>> ;)
>>> 0 w7
>>> 0 vista
>>> 1 xp
>>> 1 w98
>>> 2 dos/win311 for workgroups
>>> 1 arc310 risccomputer
>>> 2 BBC B micro's
>>> 1 Acorn Elektron (German version)

>>
>> Now list them in the order you use the most with the most on the top
>> and the least on the bottom. No Win7 or Vista here, but most of mine
>> are running XP. Although I might be upgrading some of the XP
>> machines to Windows 2000 soon. <grin>
>>
>> "We're thinking about upgrading from SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5." --
>> Henry Spencer
>>

> W98 should drop 4 places, the rest is in the right order.


Wow! Impressive! <grin>

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Bill
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Old 06-19-2009, 01:40 PM