Fwd: Reducing disk usage?

[Joao Paulo Soares]

A famous expression used frequently in the British Parliament comes to mind
about the undermentioned comments on windows... Here Here!!

I fully agree with all the  comments on win 95/8. What a load of......

Being a former windows 3.11 and 95 user, the day our company switched to OS2
was enlightening! We have suffered on crash in the last 3 years whereas before,
even though our network didn't crash (it was Novel, not NT!), rare was the day that
any of our terminals didn't have a crash (all used to crash at least once a day,
especially if one was using access!). We now run Warp Server and a mixture of
OS2 and the odd win95 workstations (which still crash). These win95 workstations
are used only for the likes of Corel Draw which you can't get for OS2 (even though
I understand that there are comparable OS2 applications to Corel Draw).

If one only wants a computer at home, then by all means buy windows or better
still, use the boot manager and use windows only if you want to play games. If
you want serious work, use OS2, AppleMac, RedHat Linux etc..

If your car were to crash or breakdown at least once a day, you would demand
your money back, yet you accept the inadequacies of Windows?

Joao Paulo

On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 12:22:54 -0500, Steven White wrote:

>On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 06:02:08 -0800, Lance Hegamin wrote:
>
>>--Original Message Text---
>>From: Cristian Secara
>>Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 01:04:35 +0200
>>
>>From: Alexander Sarras <Alexander.Sarras@UNIVIE.AC.AT>
>>Date: 8 Mar 1999 21:50:39 +0100
>>
>>
>>>Use an Operating System, not a Game Console!
>>
>>What's the use of an operating system if there's no (useful) apps on
>
>I'm responsible for 6 Windows machines at my job that run a special audio
>editing software suite.  My experience with these, and the machines of
>friends and family that I also have been called upon to service has
>permanently left me with a bad impression of Windows.
>
>What is the use of an Operating system that likes to lose track or even
>delete *key* system files (DLL's come to mind).  Everyone I know (myself
>included) has to re-install Windows at least once a year because it starts
>running like crap or develops problems.  Plug & play??  I don't think so.  My
>legacy sound wasn't recognized.  Worse yet?  Windows kept assigning it's
>resources to other devices, which really caused problems.  Replacing sound
>cards wasn't an option either, considering that we would have had to replace
>6 - $800 a piece Digital Audio Labs Card-D+'s.  I had to manually define all
>resources on all add-on cards.  Not fun!
>
>>it. Could you please buy for me the OS/2 version of Visio ? Or perhaps
>>CorelDraw ? I then will be happy to return to OS/2.
>
>You obviously know OS/2 features and limitations, yet chose to switch to a
>Windows platform anyhow.  So why complain about WinFAT's inefficient use of
>disk space??  Why ask the authors of PMMail to add a feature just so you can
>have the best of both worlds??  I don't get it??  Are Windows users above
>having limitations??  That is why there are other OS's.  I recognise your
>need your running Visio, I have to run SawPlus 32, which is a Win32 based
>audio editing software suite.  It's too bad that it is for Windows only, but
>that is also why OS/2 ships with Boot Manager.  I have no complaints about
>using it.
>
>>My feelings exactly (unfortunately).  And the same thing comes to mind
>>when my BBS callers start enthusing about Linux.  I wonder what they
>>plan to run on it?
>
>Real software... That works!  And that rules out entirely the whole Windows
>95/98 platform.  Windows 95/98 is not a serious operating system, it's an
>end-user, in the home operating system.  And that is even more frightening!
>
>>"It doesn't have to be good, it just has to be ubiquitous"
>
>The whole concept behing Micro-trash.
>
>>L G Hegamin
>>(LHegamin@mediaone.net)
>
>
>
> Steve
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