Subj : Re: Now I'm really pissed about Windows XP Beta
To   : Geo.
From : matt
Date : Sun Apr 01 2001 12:35 am

From: "matt" <cm@niglets.org>

winme was totally a let down, i setup my mothers machine using, what a waste of 
a month, NOTHING worked out of the box, had to goto websites to get any drivers 
for hardware (hp scanner, hp printer, ezonics webcam, guliemont sound card) 
NONE of these worked out of the box, and half of them said they would on top of 
that, me insults us by using the "me" slogan, also, a 96mb celeron 500 works 
better in win2k then it did in winme, i have to admit with the guy who asked 
why use winme when you can use win2k, 98% of applications work in win2k, and 
the other 2% SHOULD, but due to some lazy developers, dont. I cannot criticize 
developers for not supplieing support for win2k, but at least let us fend for 
ourselfs, one aol addon utility (i know for a fact that its a simple vb prog) 
refuses to run under win2k and i beleive thats just wrong of the developers, i 
know it would work, and ive sinse tricked it into running, bam, no problems, 
mothers happy and that asshole developer got a taste of my opinion via email 
matt
"Geo." <georger@nls.net> wrote in message news:3ac55669$1@w3.nls.net...
> You are further off. I'll explain.
>
> If you run DOS, then you will never find anything that is 100% compatible
in
> the NT world. If you run Mac then you will never find anything that is
100%
> compatible in the PC world.
>
> The complaints of old software that don't work, those aren't complaints of
> old software that don't work those are complaints of a platform that isn't
> 100% compatible with another platform. Dos based windows and NT are not
the
> same OS even though both are called windows.
>
> W2K is fully backwards compatible, all the old NT apps run on it. It's not
> 100% cross platform compatible in that some of the old dos games and some
of
> the low level dos based windows utilities will not run.
>
> It always bothers me when someone says "backwards compatible" referring to
> NT and DOS programs. DOS is not where NT came from (and for some reason I
> find the comparison a little insulting <g>). It's like talking to a Unix
> type and telling him that his unix isn't backwards compatible because it
> can't run some dos app.
>
> Geo.
>
> "Robert Comer" <bobcomer@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> news:3ac53c50@comertower....
> > <I hope I have made my point clearly this time>
> >
> > I think I'm further off now.  I kind of like playing games and using
cool
> > new hardware at home. (which has never been possible with the NT
kernel.)
> >
> > - Bob Comer <I run W2K too at home, but not on my main PC.>
> >
> >
> > "Geo." <georger@nls.net> wrote in message news:3ac5363e@w3.nls.net...
> >
> >
>
>

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