thank you thank you
and to all a good nite.. ;-)



"webster72n" wrote in message
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"RockyTSquirrel" wrote in message
...
well as long as my RF convert still works and my ole trusty B&W tv can
handle the video feed from my VIC-20, I'll be a happy camper..

my hand written OS using 2k mem. works just fine..

so long as the cassette deck rubber band don't break I can get by..

Now i will confess I did loss a neighbor last spring when our tin can
telephone string broke between our houses, but he was beginning to
become
a
pain anyway..

and spam don't bother me neither cause I just add a little more bacon
grease and the flavor comes right on through..

now viruses can be a problem but the ole moon shine taken in large
swigs
will make the hurt more bearable..

now i'm not too sure whats all the fuss about 32 or 64 bit something
or
other my 8 bit works just fine, seeing how i only got 8 fingers and 2
thumbs to count with anywho...

I do like those funny microsoft/apple commercials on the B&W TV.. you
know
the ones where that funny guy in the suit remembers all the good
times,
when he wanted everybody to just trust him..

so before my virus treatment kicks in just let me say

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everybody on the News Group..

That's the spirit, Rocky.
Allow me to thankfully return those merry and happy wishes for Christmas
and
the New Year. Make sure to listen to the doctor about the virus treatment
and not overdo it.
Take care,

Harry.


Rocky T. Squirrel, esq.
Mountain Country USA


"Joan Archer" wrote in message
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Crikey is it that many years since release, how times fly when you're
having
fun g

John's using Avast on the XP machine, I have NOD32 installed on my
Vista
partition but I've not really booted back into that one since
installing
Windows 7 on another partition in October and I'm using Microsoft
Security
Essentials on that OS with no problems.

As it's working out well it means I can avoid renewing NOD32 in June.

Not sure how long the XP machine will be in use but if Avast stopped
for
that one I could put MSE on there as well.

--
Joan Archer
http://www,freewebs.com/crossstitcher

"Noel Paton" wrote in message
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It's now 8 years since Win9x became obsolete with the release of XP.
I suspect that the engine that Avast uses is having a drastic
rewrite,
in
order to cope with Win 7 and beyond, and the cost of coding for
Win64,
as
well as Win32 has meant that the older Win9x has to go. It costs
large
sums of money to make software compatible with such different
S's -
and
the income streams for Win 9x are getting smaller every day as
machines
running Win9x die or are simply replaced. At some point it becomes
vastly
uneconomic to support the limited number of users remaining.
That point was probably reached some time ago - and Avast should be
thanked for their support since then, rather than castigated as
penny-pinchers.
Win2k will be the next to go - in 2011. I suspect that Win XP AV
support
will finally die around 2015 (or maybe earlier).
The interesting question is when Win32 support will end completely -
both
in the OS and in AV. From my perspective, MS should bite the bullet,
and
end Win32 OS's with Win7 - The majority of new machines here in the
UK
seem to be configured as Win64 already, and this process is
accelerating.
What may eventually happen is that XP comes bundled as standard as a
VM
for running Win32 apps - but unsupported. We've already seen the
beginnings of this with 'XP Mode' availability in some Win7 versions.

--
Noel Paton
CrashFixPC

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
www.crashfixpc.co.uk
"webster72n" wrote in message
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"Mike M" wrote in message
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webster72n wrote:

Corday:
They must have grown tired of supplying the free version for 'us'.

What do you mean? Avast! are saying that whether you wish to pay
or
not
their support for Win 9x systems finishes at the end of this year.
Something that has been known now for many months. It's not that
this
is a surprise, Avast! have at least had the courtesy to warn their
Win
9x customers well in advance of this change.

I totally agree with you, Mike and that's exactly what I meant.
People don't seem to matter any more in this new world of ours, it
is
business only which counts, especially in our neck of the woods.
Very sad, I must say.
H.

--
Mike M