you must all DUMP Windows 98 ...

IMMEDIATELY !!!!

XP is MUCH more robust ! ...and MUCH more up to date ! ...and its' drivers
library is MASSIVE.

....and with PChips motherboards going for £27, (admittedly not dual
channel), there is no such thing as, "I can't afford to replace my 15 year
old PC" !!!!

regards, Richard

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 01:16:16 -0000, "RJK" wrote:

IMMEDIATELY !!!!

XP is MUCH more robust ! ...and MUCH more up to date ! ...and its' drivers
library is MASSIVE.

...and with PChips motherboards going for £27, (admittedly not dual
channel), there is no such thing as, "I can't afford to replace my 15 year
old PC" !!!!

regards, Richard

Yes, Sir, Richard! Right Away, Sir, Richard!

"RJK" wrote in message
...
IMMEDIATELY !!!!

XP is MUCH more robust ! ...and MUCH more up to date ! ...and its'
drivers
library is MASSIVE.

...and with PChips motherboards going for £27, (admittedly not dual
channel), there is no such thing as, "I can't afford to replace my 15 year
old PC" !!!!

regards, Richard

Oh yes, I will upgrade this 233Mhz laptop with 128Mb ram right away. And it
will freeze up like a banana daiquiri!

"RJK" wrote in
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IMMEDIATELY !!!!

XP is MUCH more robust ! ...and MUCH more up to date ! ...and its'
drivers library is MASSIVE.

...and with PChips motherboards going for £27, (admittedly not dual
channel), there is no such thing as, "I can't afford to replace my 15
year old PC" !!!!

It's whatever trips your trigger. I run both and can do most anything in 98
that I can in XP. Actually, there are some things I can do in 98 that I
*can't* do in XP.
I have lots of customers still running 98 and are happy as can be. Their
machines are too old to support XP and they see no reason to buy new
machines.

--
--- A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. ---

In the process of doing!!!!

Originally Posted by Ivan

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 01:16:16 -0000, "RJK" wrote:

IMMEDIATELY !!!!

XP is MUCH more robust ! ...and MUCH more up to date ! ...and its' drivers
library is MASSIVE.

...and with PChips motherboards going for £27, (admittedly not dual
channel), there is no such thing as, "I can't afford to replace my 15 year
old PC" !!!!

regards, Richard

Yes, Sir, Richard! Right Away, Sir, Richard!

Anyone who'd recommend PC Chips motherboards has got a screw loose.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm

"Menno Hershberger" wrote in message
...
"RJK" wrote in
:

IMMEDIATELY !!!!

XP is MUCH more robust ! ...and MUCH more up to date ! ...and its'
drivers library is MASSIVE.

...and with PChips motherboards going for £27, (admittedly not dual
channel), there is no such thing as, "I can't afford to replace my
15
year old PC" !!!!

It's whatever trips your trigger. I run both and can do most anything
in 98
that I can in XP. Actually, there are some things I can do in 98 that
I
*can't* do in XP.
I have lots of customers still running 98 and are happy as can be.
Their
machines are too old to support XP and they see no reason to buy new
machines.

--
--- A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your
mother. ---

You are still in just an intermediate stage of XP-poisoning, if you can
still type.

--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"RJK" wrote in message
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| IMMEDIATELY !!!!
|
| XP is MUCH more robust ! ...and MUCH more up to date ! ...and its'
drivers
| library is MASSIVE.
|
| ...and with PChips motherboards going for £27, (admittedly not dual
| channel), there is no such thing as, "I can't afford to replace my 15
year
| old PC" !!!!
|
| regards, Richard
|
|

Will we ever learn.
First it was windows, you can run more than one app at time. Yet, most of
still ran one. Our first taste of eye candy.
Then there were the first two half-broke versions of windows 95. Then some
real fixes with versions B and C. And, we could run 32 bit applications.
Oooohh.
Windows 98, and its demagogue godsend, Windows 98SE came along. Lots more
eye candy.
Windows Millenium edition, not many people use it except for my daughter.
Eye candy galore, and, it can fix itself via a thing called restore.
Meanwhile, the business side had its taste of NT and its 4 fixes or Service
Packs. Many still use it cause it was hard to break. Windows 2000 with
lots of eye candy, and similar to Win98 in appearance and user operation.
Friendly they said. But, its had to be fixed 4 times too.

Now, a super-bloated operating system comes along in two versions called XP.
One for us'ns that stay at home, and us'ns that work in its environment.
Its been fixed twice. Not due to the fact it was broke, but because it was
easy to low-level access. Easy to break, easy to manipulate by outsiders.
Sure has a purty screen. Fixes itself they say. But, you better have a
good PC. It will eat your RAM for lunch, and your hard drive for supper.

Thing is, we're still communicating, writing memos, documents and so forth
in basically the same way. Its just a bit easier to do since leaving an all
ms-dos environment.

Now, you want me to spend my hard-earned money on a very IFFY motherboard.
Pay an even higher pittance to Bill Gates for this?

Windows 98 was never fixed, as it was never broken. It was rewritten to
support many new-fangled hardware. As was ME. ME was also a test-bed for
some of XP's stuff.

A PC built in 1990 (do the math) was very expensive at the time. Its
operating system and files were relatively small, read small. There was
little way for entry and places for a virus to hide. Isn't "progress"
wonderful?
"RJK" wrote in message
...
IMMEDIATELY !!!!

XP is MUCH more robust ! ...and MUCH more up to date ! ...and its'
drivers
library is MASSIVE.

...and with PChips motherboards going for £27, (admittedly not dual
channel), there is no such thing as, "I can't afford to replace my 15 year
old PC" !!!!

regards, Richard

RJK wrote:
IMMEDIATELY !!!!

XP is MUCH more robust !

The Titanic was also much more robust.

...and MUCH more up to date !

Logically, anything in the computer world made a few years after its
predecessor should be "MUCH more up to date". Thanks for pointing that out.

....and its' drivers
library is MASSIVE.

Yeah, great. I normally need to install drivers several times a day on
the same machine, so that is a big help. I'm certain the drivers in the
XP database are "MUCH more up to date" than anything the manufacturer
has to offer, so this is doubly good.


...and with PChips motherboards going for £27,

Pure junk.

(admittedly not dual
channel), there is no such thing as, "I can't afford to replace my 15 year
old PC" !!!!

Yep. Just replace your motherboard and you're all set. RAM, CPU, et al,
is upgraded magically when you install XP. It will even transform your
ATA 66 hard drive into ATA 133 or even SATA if your new motherboard
supports it.

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 01:16:16 -0000, "RJK" wrote:

IMMEDIATELY !!!!

XP is MUCH more robust ! ...and MUCH more up to date ! ...and its' drivers
library is MASSIVE.

...and with PChips motherboards going for £27, (admittedly not dual
channel), there is no such thing as, "I can't afford to replace my 15 year
old PC" !!!!

regards, Richard

Hey Richard:

May we hear your final arguments?
Surely, you haven't changed your mind?

Ivan