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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!olive!navmat.navy.gov.au!posgate!posgate.apana.org.au!posgate.acis.com.au!news.act.apana.org.au!warrane.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!usenet.hana.nm.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!primus.ac.net!news.serv.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!nordwest.pop.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!c4.hrz.uni-giessen.de!usenet From: chris.traxler@theo.physik.uni-giessen.de (Chris Traxler) Newsgroups: misc.misc,misc.forsale.computers.discussion,comp.os.os2.marketplace,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.mach,comp.os.ms-windows,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.misc,comp.os.magic-cap,comp.os.lynx,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Win 95 stability Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 12:23:52 GMT Organization: University of Giessen, Germany Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4fnbud$tq7@c4.hrz.uni-giessen.de> References: <Pine.D-G.3.91.960124225044.20914C-100000-100000@erc.cat.syr.edu> <4eu2n6$bvu@rubens.telebyte.nl> <4fflmt$jh3@c4.hrz.uni-giessen.de> <4fhldb$2he@rubens.telebyte.nl> <4fhqo5$t6d@cegt201.bradley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: theorie126.physik.uni-giessen.de X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au misc.misc:29279 misc.forsale.computers.discussion:3015 comp.os.os2.marketplace:1992 comp.os.msdos.misc:48131 comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc:101507 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc:90518 comp.os.mach:5034 comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy:110167 comp.os.misc:4689 comp.os.magic-cap:1467 comp.os.lynx:1685 comp.os.linux.misc:85759 comp.os.386bsd.development:3348 comp.os.386bsd.bugs:3088 >DOS is cool! - NOT! What is "cool" about DOS? It starts with the annoying backslash \ in file paths that is hard to type on non-US keyboards (on a German keyboard, e.g., you need to hold the right Alt key and press some key in the upper row (between 0 and the accents)). Then you try to partition a 1 GB HD in one partition and you get a 32K cluster size. At last, you try to write a program that needs more than 32K dynamical data, and... then it's already overdue to switch the OS and convert to Linux. If you are still believing that crashes are not your fault, that is. If you share most DOS/Win users' view, namely that you are the one to blame for hangups, then you are constantly losing self-confidence and end up being counterproductive and sad. >But fat partitions have to do with the filesystem, not >the OS in particular... - again NOT! Take DOS, remove the filesystem, what is left? Kind regards, Chris ----- Chris Traxler, Inst.f.Theor.Physik, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 16, D-35392 Giessen