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20 Dec 2008, 2:51 pm

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What's more surprising is that the PC world is still using the x86 architecture, which Intel tried to scrap 15 years ago. x86 isn't even RISC (it's CISC), and Apple dumped CISC in '94!

The only reason x86 is still around is because MS refuses to change (surprise).



x86 is in use due to the fact that processors built on that structure are the most MoBo friendly. RISC processors are weak and the good ones need as many fans as a server or are too expensive.



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20 Dec 2008, 8:50 pm

Windows ME should be the winner. I've never used something so unstable before. But it did bring some okay features to XP.



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20 Dec 2008, 10:10 pm

I think the worst I had the (dis)pleasure of fooling with was Basic Four (ok, I'm cheating, it's a minicomputer OS, but the box was the size of a large server. a 20" or so Hard drive [1 platter] that used Basic (an interpretive language) as the OS!...;) it was probably slower than anything mentioned so far...

After that, Dos 3.0 (which started the old 'don't trust anything ending in .0' adage...;) 2.1 wasn't that bad, because at the time, I had 2 30-meg HDs, and it worked fine on that. I skipped straight to 5 and then 6.2...;)

My wife had ME (a component of MS's strategy of CE-ME-NT trio of operating sytems). I was forever being hauled off my Win 2k machine (which I'm still using just fine...;) to fix the problems with her concrete OS...;)



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21 Dec 2008, 12:05 am

Worst dos - Dos 4.0 - lots of new features that didn't work till 5.0

Worst windows based operating system - OS/2 Warp. It looked like 3.1 but missing the useful stuff.



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21 Dec 2008, 1:45 am

At work at "big company"® they just gave me a laptop yesterday, a Thinkpad one. When they delivered it to me they wrote some stuff like the serial number and model. The sticker license at the bottom said "Windows Vista".
I turned it on: windows xp :lol:

One girl next to me I think has the world record: she got a virus on her laptop in less than an hour...


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21 Dec 2008, 4:31 am

Windows Vista :
XP is better, but I'm going to install the last version of Ubuntu ^^


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21 Dec 2008, 5:46 am

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Worst windows based operating system - OS/2 Warp. It looked like 3.1 but missing the useful stuff.


I prefered win OS/2 to anything from M$. going from OS/2 to Win 3.11 was the worst thing ever (not my idea BTW: it was my parents' computer). I never saw something crash so often!


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21 Dec 2008, 9:04 am

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Windows ME should be the winner. I've never used something so unstable before. But it did bring some okay features to XP.




Believe it or not I installed Windows ME on several of my Windows 98 Machines and it was more stable than 98. Well then again ME got rid of Real-Mode MS-DOS.



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21 Dec 2008, 11:50 am

Oh wow! I always forget this...

This machine... which I bought shortly after XP came on the scene...

I saw it in PC World, running XP. However, when I went to purchase it, I was told it came with Windows ME. I said that if that was the case, I wasn't interested. They backed down, and said they would sell it with the XP installed, and all I needed to do was to get MS to send me the upgrade disc - for free.

Along the way, they had also discovered that they only had the demo machine, so I was getting a discount for taking that, instead of a properly pre-packed system.

In the event, of course, MS wanted to charge me for the upgrade, so I complained back to the store, who did reimburse me. Good show.

The upshot is, that this machine actually has the ME sticker on it, with a code I never used, and I have the sealed packet with the ME CD in it.

Needless to say, ME has never been on this machine (unless it was maybe pre-loaded, before they put the demo XP on it). Indeed, it now doesn't even have XP on it.

I wonder what an unopened ME package is worth?


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21 Dec 2008, 12:42 pm

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I wonder what an unopened ME package is worth?

Not much, I'd guess.


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21 Dec 2008, 5:14 pm

keep it another five years. I bet its worth something to the right collector then.


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21 Dec 2008, 10:50 pm

Windoze ME and Kubuntu. Me crashed to much and KDE is such a pain in the butt.


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21 Dec 2008, 11:22 pm

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Windoze ME and Kubuntu. Me crashed to much and KDE is such a pain in the butt.

I still have no idea why, but I hate KDE. A friend loves it, but I don't think I'll ever be persuaded that it's so much better than GNOME.


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22 Dec 2008, 9:43 am

RaceDrv709 wrote:
Windoze ME and Kubuntu. Me crashed to much and KDE is such a pain in the butt.




Why Kubuntu, a lot of my friends use it with no problems. It has great eye candy too.



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22 Dec 2008, 11:01 am

worst = any version of windows



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22 Dec 2008, 11:06 am

lau wrote:
I wonder what an unopened ME package is worth?

How much are coasters going for these days?