From simsa@televar.com Tue Feb 24 13:21:11 1998 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id NAA29924 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 13:21:11 -0800 Received: from concord.televar.com (root@concord.televar.com [208.8.131.83]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.09) with ESMTP id NAA05555 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 13:21:10 -0800 Received: from LOCALNAME (wenuser020.televar.com [208.26.163.34]) by concord.televar.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA22159 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 13:21:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <34F339D1.2716@televar.com> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 13:21:22 -0800 From: "Robert A. (Tony) Sims" Reply-To: simsa@televar.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ph-assess@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Win 95 and Vista References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit John Manning wrote: > > 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???? > >> Thanks John, Those things don't seem to grow on your trees either. Tony -- Robert A. (Tony) Sims Administrator Chelan-Douglas Health District mailto:simsa@televar.com mailto:TONY@health-chelan-douglas.wa.gov http://www.televar.com/~storyg/cdhd.htm (509)664-5306 .