[rescue] NeXTSTEP or OPENSTEP?

[Lionel Peterson]

You are missing the obvious - WinXP has 14 years of patches & updates, Win7
and Win8 not so much...

Lionel

> On Aug 10, 2014, at 2:28 PM, adh at an.bradford.ma.us (Sandwich Maker) wrote:
>
> " From: Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com>
> "
> " There are embedded versions of Win 7 and 8:
> "
> " Win7:
> "
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/windows-embedded-standard-7.as
px
> "
> " Win8:
> "
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/windows-embedded-8-standard.as
px
>
> another fine theory shot down by facts...
>
> the w7 machine is an acer while the xp machine is a thinkpad.  driver
> quality?
>
> or maybe they sched w7/w8 embedded to restart daily?
>
> we're running pretty much the same apps on both.
>
> " > On Aug 10, 2014, at 12:26 PM, adh at an.bradford.ma.us (Sandwich Maker)
wrote:
> " >
> " > []
> " >
> " > but -- i can leave my xp notebook on for weeks without problems,
> " > though firefox memory leaks demand a kill and restart every once in a
> " > while.  my gf's w7 notebook suffers from what i'm guessing are kernel
> " > memory leaks, because only a restart will reclaim the memory, and it
> " > needs them weekly or so.  and this is not running as an admin.
> " >
> " > i conjecture it's down to xp embedded, which -has- to run and run and
> " > run, and memory leaks are not tolerable.
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