"dave @ stejonda" wrote in message
So, let's get this straight. Anybody's singular experience is
irrelevant. But Al's experience is not irrelevant because he "knows what
he's talking about", and he "know[s] better than you".

That's all right then.


You know that's not what I meant. By singular I meant in terms of amount of
PCs as a "testbed" to form an opinion .... ie. a person with one PC that XP
won't work on doesn't really represent much in the scheme of things. Other
people out there like me with substantial experience on 1000's of machines
with various OS's will on the other hand have a much more valid opinion of
what is stable/good or not.

My opinion based on this is that XP is the best out there, Linux aside.
However, putting XP on an old machine may cause you problems if it doesn't
like the hardware (this PC I'm using is 5 years old and runs it like a dream
though!). It's not fair to tar it as crap just because it won't work on
older hardware.


PS, I still remember the kit I was working on in 1983 and have a front
panel decal to remind me.


Yes, those were the days ... buffer overruns weren't really an issue then!!
I still have my trusty BBC Model B with an extra 32k shadow RAM and a floppy
disk drive! All my best software's on tape though ... takes a bit of
patience to load it up ...



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