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echo: nthelp
to: Richard B.
from: Frank Haber
date: 2006-11-16 11:19:34
subject: Re: 64-bit anyone

From: "Frank Haber" 

Another curiosity question for you Notes vict^H^H admins - can't you strip
out attachments from a user's mail file?  Or are lusers actually
accumulating 3.6GB of Rich Text email?  Good grief, I couldn't do that with
chocolate-covered text, typing all day and all night for all of my life.

I'm eyeing Vista 64 warily for a couple of workstations.  Being a
conservative guy (note lower case and absence of any reference to
politics), I'm already starting to worry.  The driver thing will surely
work itself out.  I'm fretting over backup, RAID hickies, defrag (NBD with
NTFS and workstation usage patterns), and the general low-level utility
fixability of things.  I think we'll all be giving up some control, and
reformatting a lot more when systems go corrupt.

Let's hope the new driver structure and the (?temporary) increased immunity
to malware are compensation.

I will shed a tear over the loss of 16-bit and DOS, if only for sentimental
reasons. And I wonder how good Vista64 is at rendering a video while
formatting a floppy (g). Let's not even talk about emulating
one-char-at-a-time I/O out the (vanishing) RS-232 port.

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