Well, I did run the Windows internet suite and the Winfax, and the Office 97
stuff, along with CorelDraw (before their acquisition of Ventura and
WordPerfect) and some DOS stuff. Oh, yeah ... there was Autocad, and a
couple of other goodies, but it's true, there were seldom more than three or
four of them open, maybe five if one considers Calculator. It's true,
though, that most of this stuff was vanilla-flavored Windows apps, which one
would expect to behave pretty normally.
Nevertheless, it did run without interruption (unless I took it somewhere)
for well over a year.
I certainly agree that it's not Microsoft that's to blame for what people
buy.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo_at_siconic.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 8:29 PM
Subject: OT! Re: Nuke this off-topic flamefest!
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Richard Erlacher wrote:
>
> > I don't know what that says about DELL. My Winbook ran for over a year
> > without ever being shut down. Its main purpose was to serve as the comm
> > station while my modem was on load to my mother. Unfortunately, I'm
still
> > waiting for the replacement battery, since I ruined the battery in the
> > process.
>
> It says all you ever did with your laptop was run a communications
> program, and that is a very simple task for Windows to perform on a sole
> basis. Open up 10 other applications concurrently and use them actively,
> then see how Windows holds up.
>
> If this is what Microsoft thinks the consumer market will tolerate, and
> the consumer market does tolerate it, then who holds the shame?
>
> Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
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