Ram Hogging (was Re: Apple LWPro parallel port?)

<shameless plug> Want a real modern OS that runs on anything above pentium 60 and does useful work in 32 megs of RAM? check out BeOS www.gobe.com </shameless plug> The point is it's a symptom of very sloppy programming to use that much RAM. Given that, it suggests it won't be very stable, either. Microsoft has proven with every OS since the birth of Windows that they are incapable of producing a stable, efficient, well designed OS. Even WinCE apparently crashes frequently. I use BeOS as my stability benchmark, and it only goes down when: 1. I shut it down. 2. Power Outages. 3. I get a misbehaving app that consumes my system resources and I shut it down. 4. Hardware death. I gave up on win95 2 years ago and while I miss the plethora of apps, I'll never willingly go back. BeOS has most of the apps I actually *use*. -- Jim Strickland jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- BeOS Powered! -----------------------------------------------------------------------