[rescue] Perverse Question

[nick at snowman.net]

I belive he's speaking in "MS Stability" not in any real overall meaning
of the term.  For a MS os it's amazingly stable... It's nearly as stable
as dos.
	Nick

On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 11:41:28AM -0700, Robert Novak wrote:
> 
> > He speaks for the majority, I suspect. Very few people who have used all
> > of the currently available Microsoft operating systems to a substantial
> > degree will dispute that Win2k is quite stable and usable. It's almost the
> > Linux of Windows operating systems (makes older hardware more usable...
> > just not as much older as Linux does).
> 
> I'd dispute it's stability.  I've seen it crash on factory configured
> dells like a drunken monkey at the wheel of an 18 wheeler, over, and
> over again.  Win2k on Dell Precisions with Geforce 3 and Quadra4 cards
> don't seem wonderfull.
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