Clearly express my thoughts on OSes

[Heru]

ME runs better than 98 for me.  I'm not sure why, and frankly I don't care, seeing as I use it for only a few programs; and I use Linux for everything else.

ME might as well have been called Windows 98 Third Edition, because that's what it is.

And the NT kernel is based on the OS/2 kernel, which was written form the ground up but heavily based on the Windows 3x and DOS kernels.

[Calum]

winME runs better than 98 for me too, it is due to my laptop using a lot of hardware that only came out after win98 was "developed". The hardware is awkward and software dependent, and winME has a better time of searching multiple directories for a suitable driver than win98 does.

WinME does not appear to be based on DOS however i have heard about people who have patched certain files to show that it is indeed. I tried to use the same patches on my winME but cannot get the same results. I don't actually care. What it is does not affect its unchallenged ability to be shit.

I only use windows for a few programs, unfortunately they are programs i use often, and they leave me sitting in front of windows for far too long. the OS interface itself is incredibly clunky compared with linux, and many freezes and crashes occur. Of course windows detects my cdrw okay, linux doesn't, windows detects my modem, and linux doesn't, i cannot run rebirth or sound forge in linux, or maybe i can using wineX (sound forge needs direct x support, oh there's another thing, i'd need to reinstall all my directx plugins and so on...), we shall see...
still, i am not saying windows is any better. what's the point in being able to run a program, only to have it eat up CDs time after time, or crash in the middle of a saving operation?

[Kintaro]

quote:Originally posted by Ctrl Alt Del 123:
Heru
DOS = Dumb Old Shit

Hey its fater than Windows or Linux,
I have Deskview/X installed on my Computer.
With Caldera DR-DOS

I like dos its fun and fast
also for Websurfing i use Arachne WHich is a fast asssssssss browser... try it, it runs under Win 9x as well!

[Calum]

i think he probably means "MSDOS" running in one of Microsoft's infamous "Virtual Machines". ever seen this message?:
"This DOS program has terminated. Windows cannot close this virtual machine. Click OK to end this task and lose any unsaved information."

[Heru]

ME is indeed based on DOS.
It is Windows 98 with extras and new icons.

MS hid the real mode DOS options very well, so only a dedicated user can find them.

All of the DOS programs that ran in 98 run about the same in ME.

[Gooseberry Clock]

quote:Windows Millennium - the "no good reason to release it" release. I honestly don't know why Microsoft bothered with this release other than to make money. It's essentially Windows 98, minus an "Exit to DOS" feature. Most of the "new" features such as Internet Explorer 5.5, Media Player 7, etc. can easily be downloaded from Microsoft's web site. At a price of only $49.95 to $59.95, Microsoft must have realized that this was a useless Windows upgrade, as they priced it at almost half the price of Windows 95 and Windows 98 upgrades!

Read the whole thing:

http://www.emulators.com/secrets.htm

[Heru]

Yes ME was a useless upgrade.
But I didn't buy it, so I didn't waste any money on it.

[Zombie3241234]

I am the secretive Cunt.

I am worthless trash.

I must go and drown my head in a bucket of chicken fecess and hope that my paernts don't kill themselves considering that they gave birth to me.

[ May 24, 2002: Message edited by: psyjax ]

[Calum]

the secretive cunt again, why is nothing being done about this?

[Zombie3241234]

I am the secretive Cunt.

My daddy should have put me into a tissue, instead of into mommy.

Please come kill me!

203.54.24.248

[ May 24, 2002: Message edited by: psyjax ]

[Zombie3241234]

Hi, Im the secretive Cunt!

I'm prettending to be Zombie484684867486 cuz I think people are dumb enugh to be fooled.

I'm going home to rape a donkey now.

Bye bye!

P.s. If any of you want to be my friend, here is my special internet adress!

X11, plese come visit me!

203.54.24.248

[ May 24, 2002: Message edited by: psyjax ]

[Calum]

can i just say that this dumbassed fuck has degenerated into not
even trying to speak in a language.

His sole intention is to fuck up the formatting of the pages. Is he employed by M$ or is he just doing this crap in his spare time?