[GreenKeys] Windows Vista et al

[gil smith]

Hi folks:

I have run some sort of microsoft OS off and on since the IBM PC days (DOS 
2.something, as I recall).  I actually quite liked DOS in the early days, 
having moved from my first PC, an Apple II (cloned at the circuit-board and 
prom level, by a dozen of us renegades).  While the Apple II was fun, the 
PC had more of a future.  Dabbled with some CP/M, which was nice, but it 
was a dying platform.  Unix was kinda cool on minis in the 80s, but was too 
much of a time sink.  More recently, Linux improved on unix, but seemed to 
take too much time too.  A computer is supposed to give me more free time, 
not less.  So few of them ever have.

I moved to Macs in its early days (SE, Mac II...), and ignored early 
Windows, which was a joke.   That is until win 3.x came out, at which time 
I jumped back, since I needed to support customers on the win platform.  I 
still regret dumping Mac at that time.

After a decade-and-a-half of pain and suffering on Winblows, I am happy to 
report that I have plunged back into Macs with a new Macbook Pro.  It's so 
nice;  damn those folks at Apple know how to refine and polish a fine bit 
of engineering.  A computer has put a smile on my face for the first time 
in many years.

I kick myself for not moving back to Macs sooner.  Sadly, I will always 
have some piece of windows shit around, since there are enough engineering 
programs that are not available on Macs.  And even though you can set the 
Mac up with Windows as dual-boot, I just can't feel good about 
contaminating it in such a vile fashion.

But rather than just venting, I should contribute something to this 
conversation:  as far as windows stability goes, I did find XP to be not 
too bad, at least for the mix of programs I ran.  W98 was pretty iffy, and 
ME was the same shit repackaged.  W95 and below, well, nobody cares now 
anyway.  I hope I never see Vista.

There.  I feel better now.

Please don't report my off-topic ramblings to the greenkeys moderator.

gil


At 01:19 PM 12/7/2007, WB6BLV  Central California wrote:
>Jason,
>
>Glad to hear you scrapped Vista...Aaron (NN6O) has often pointed out serious
>issues with that flavor over at the ham computer reflector...
>
>I find 98SE to be the most stable version, but I prefer DOS (usually 5 or
>maybe 622) for many ham aps
>
>BTW, I am in Porterville, tween Bakersfield and Fresno... are you nearby?
>
>Any others on the list have experiences (good or bad) with ham aps running
>on various OSs you care to relate?
>
>John
>WB6BLV at inreach.com
>
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