From JohnM@co.san-juan.wa.us Tue Feb 24 12:46:01 1998 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id MAA34556 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:46:01 -0800 Received: from exchange.co.san-juan.wa.us (exchange.co.san-juan.wa.us [198.239.56.6]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.09) with SMTP id MAA31710 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:45:59 -0800 Received: by exchange.co.san-juan.wa.us with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.995.52) id <01BD4122.409FF440@exchange.co.san-juan.wa.us>; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:46:40 -0800 Message-ID: From: John Manning To: "'ph-assess@u.washington.edu'" Subject: RE: Win 95 and Vista Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:46:39 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.995.52 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Our experience with upgrading to Windows 95 have been just the opposite. More computer crashes and our computer folks shake their heads and say upgrade the machine. (more memory and bigger hard drives and faster CPUs) John Manning Health & Community Services San Juan County JohnM@CO.SAN-JUAN.WA.US >-----Original Message----- >From: Solet, David [SMTP:David.Solet@metrokc.gov] >Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 1998 9:19 AM >To: Washington public health assessment coordinators >Subject: RE: Win 95 and Vista > >Greg et al, just for clarification, the bottom line of Jim's message is >only that people should be on Windows 95 to take advantage of 32-bit >(i.e., much faster, multi-tasking) software, and that Vista will >eventually be re-written to run--faster--for that operating system. I >believe the upgrade from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 is pretty >inexpensive, and brings with it a lot of other benefits--for one thing, >much better memory management and many fewer computer crashes. > >>---------- >>From: Greg Story[SMTP:STORY@health-chelan-douglas.wa.gov] >>Sent: Monday, February 23, 1998 5:33 PM >>To: Washington public health assessment coordinators >>Subject: Re: Win 95 and Vista >> >>Lukens-Bull, Katryne A. wrote: >>> >>> Dear VISTA users: >>> >>> This is important for all those lagging behind in technology. Windows 95 >>> has been out for 3 years so it is definitely time to upgrade. Here is a >>> message from Jim Allan about changes in the upcoming Vista!! >>> >>> Visual Basic recently surpassed Cobol as the programming language with >>> the most lines of source code written. Everybody's switching to Visual >>> Basic 5.0, which produces only 32-bit applications. I'm in the process >>> of switching to VB5 for Vista. VB5 applications do not run in Windows >>> 3.1 (16-bit) environments. Get the word out -- time to upgrade 3.1x >>> installations to Windows 95 or Windows NT asap!!!! >>> >>> James R. Allen (206) 296-2775 Fax: (206) 205-5314 >>> Seattle-King County Department of Public Health >>> Epidemiology, Planning and Evaluation Unit >>> 999 Third Avenue, Suite 1200 >>> Seattle, WA 98104-4039 >>> >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>> "We must always follow somebody looking for truth and we must >>> always run away from anyone who finds it." >>> Andre Gide >>> >>> Katryne Lukens Bull, MPH, CHES >>> Washington State Department of Health >>> Office of Planning >>> 1112 SE Quince St. >>> PO Box 47890 >>> Olympia, Wa 98504-7890 >>> Phone: (360) 664-9381 >>> Fax: (360) 586-7424 >>> Pager: (360) 971-0586 >>> kal0303 @hub.doh.wa.gov >>Nice concept. Where is all the money going to come from???? >> .