-=> Quoting Bob Ackley to Dan Ceppa <=-

 DC> I don't know if I'd go THAT far back!  However, I see very little
 DC> difference  between Win 95 98 ME XP abd Vista.  

 BA> This machine is a 486/66.
     Actually, I'd honestly prefer 3-4 80386's than one single  Dual Core.
     Especially on the lines of what Dan was getting at... Give me a
     80386 running Windows'95 (maybe 1 running Windows'2000), and another
     running ms-dos 6.22 w/ windows 3.1 for a few appplications.... And
     maybe 1 more running Linux....  Most programming would be done on the
     DOS system, reading mail on the DOS system, and BBS on the Linux or
     Windows'2000 system.... It'd be far more flexible that way....
     Best of all, when I want a full-screen console window, I'd have one.
     I could design graphics mode applications that can switch graphics
     modes as I please and not worry about messages telling me I can't
     run the application.  This is how I take Dan's comments on
     "if it did what they want"... Granted, Microsoft and other comercial
     software companies will demand that you can only buy the latest and
     greatest that requires you to run the most up to date Operating system,
     and will of course need more ram, cpu speed, hard drive space, etc.
     all to run quite a bit slower than the software your presently using
     on the 80386 runnning ms-dos 6.22 .... Darn it....

 BA> IMO most of the people in this country shouldn't be allowed to be in
 BA> the same room with a computer, let alone own one and try to use it.

     Well, that's sorta true for two seperate reasons... I mean, some
     people would try to put the nations security at risk.... The other
     group of people would be so stupid they'd hand their wallet over
     to a shady looking guy wearing a hood over his face saying he thought
     it looked cool... Once the guy took all their money and their ID
     out of the wallet and handed their empty wallet back, they'd probably
     thank him and tell him to have a nice day.... At which point, he'd
     say "I plan to!"


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