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Old 06-20-2009, 06:50 PM
GG WILLIKERS
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Re: W7 stuff

~misfit~ wrote:
> Somewhere on teh intarwebs 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... ;)

>
> I'm still running 98 on my Dell Latitude CPi-A 400 (Dixon) and it goes just
> fine. (Actually it's a hybrid OS called 98SE2ME (Google..) that takes the
> [very] few improvements that ME had over 98SE [mainly memory management] and
> inserts them into 98SE.) It boots faster than my 1.7GHz Pentium M (Dothan)
> R51 ThinkPad which is running XP Pro and is actually more responsive in use.
> Add to that I've maxed the RAM on the R51 at 2GB but can't find a reasonable
> price for the SD-RAM SODIMMs to take the CPi-A from 128MB [2 x 64MB] to it's
> max of 256MB. (No good spending more than the machine's worth in re-sale
> value to increase the RAM.)
>


I may have what you need in my shoebox memory museum, Specs please...
(pc 100 ????)


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