Somewhere on teh intarwebs BillW50 wrote:
> 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>

I think that perhaps Sjouke runs a computer museum. <g>

Then again, the same could almost be said about me.

Cheers,
--
Shaun.

"Build a man a fire, and he`ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and
he`ll be warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchett, Jingo.