On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Josh Dersch wrote:
It sometimes bothers me that every other discussion
here about old
hardware eventually devolves into Microsoft bashing, as if there's some
unwritten requirement to occasionally assure everyone that no, they're
still not a Communi...er Windows-lover.
. . .
To bring this back on topic, I guess what I'm trying to say is: This is
a classic computing list, not Slashdot. Can we have religious arguments
about VMS vs. UNIX instead? :)
I apologize for igniting a religious battle. That was not my intent;
instead, I was giving a factual reference to refute Philipp Hachtmann's
otherwise quite reasonable claim that "A computer doesn't get slower with
time...!"
Design choices were made that reduced the stability of Windows, in order
to make it more adaptable to "multimedia" (dancing kangaroos, etc.),
because that is what the public wants. We are not particularly
representative of the generaal public. I use Windows a lot. I wish that
there were a configuration choice to make it rigidly unchangeable, so that
reinstallation would not ever be necessary -- but, I am not who it was
designed for.
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