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| | | So I have a Pentium 450 with 12 Gb HD and 128 Mb RAM and Win98. It takes two minutes from power-on to have get a blank notepad window opened. Same thing takes less than a minute on my old Pentium 120 with Win95. It took less than 20 seconds from (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: What is "powerful"? —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | (...) Isn't "progress" great? ;-) (...) Well, chalk that behavior up as being courtesy of your operating system vendor. They want booting and every other normal aspect of computing to be slower and slower each year so that you need to buy faster and (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | Re: What is "powerful"? —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | | (...) Anyone planning on taking a look at the $199 iToaster? (URL) only "bad" thing seems to be that you have to use their ISP, and it is $19.99 per month, which I guess is kinda average, but certainly a lot more than I pay (nothing). If there were (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | Re: What is "powerful"? —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | (...) Boot up time issues aren't unique to Windows. I was always annoyed at how long OS/2 took to boot up at work. Now that I use AIX on an RS/6000, Windows and OS/2 start up instantly by comparison, though a large part of the slowness of AIX (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: What is "powerful"? —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | | On Sun, 27 Jun 1999 11:02:09 GMT, Tore Eriksson <tore.eriksson@mbox3...wipnet.se> wrote: Followup-to: .geek. (...) If this si true, there are configuration issues. Win98 is not much slower than 95. (...) Doesn't look as good, though, does it? (...) (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: What is "powerful"? —Fredrik Glöckner
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| | | | (...) Is that a so-called "winmodem"? I was shopping for a modem not too long ago myself, but I almost exclusively found "winmodems", which are useless to me. I ended up with a second hand USR Sportster 33.6. What's wrong with winmodems? They're not (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: What is "powerful"? —Chris Moseley
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| | | | Fredrik Glöckner wrote in message ... (...) And you don't always have the "Win" part of the "WinModem" available? Moz (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: What is "powerful"? —Fredrik Glöckner
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| | | | (...) True. I'm happy to say that I can get away with using Linux at least parts of the time. But I still need to fire up my DOS-partition to run LDraw and friends. BTW, do anybody know the solution for a current problem with my MSDOS system? When I (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: What is "powerful"? —Chris Moseley
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| | | | | Fredrik Glöckner wrote in message ... (...) It made as much sense to me in Norweigan, I'm afraid. (...) It does that. I let Win98 "fix" a FAT16 partition the other day, and it turns 400MB of assorted files into 500 files each 16kB long. Fortunately (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | Re: What is "powerful"? —Fredrik Glöckner
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| | | | | | (...) In my experience, it is best to start with the OS that is least used to coexist with others on the same computer. I start with Windows 95 (for me, older is better, since I want the smallest possible OS that lets me use the games and (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: What is "powerful"? —Tore Eriksson
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| | | | (...) I've seen that message many times, but in Swedish of course. It has something to do with codepage. Do you have the line in config.sys beginning something like: device=c:\windows\co...ountry.sys ... or Country=046,850,c:\w...ountry.sys (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: What is "powerful"? —Fredrik Glöckner
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| | | | (...) Thanks for the suggestion, however, I already have these lines in my config.sys: device=C:\WINDOWS\CO...isplay.sys con=(ega,,1) Country=047,850,C:\W...ountry.sys (I assume the case of the path is irrelevant.) Fredrik (25 years ago, 30-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: What is "powerful"? —Selçuk Göre
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| | | | Fredrik Glöckner wrote in message ... (...) Being a non-US user, we have the same problems, so here is the excerpts from my autoexec.bat and config.sys files: CONFIG.SYS: device=C:\WINDOWS\CO...isplay.sys con=(ega,,1) (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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