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From: mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
Date: 27 Mar 1997 03:42:21 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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Honorable Bob Hauck
wrote on 26 Mar (in article <5hbv1h$7ti@twin.wasatch.com>):
>> Another common misconception :) Your computer did not get any slower
>> since the time you bought it... Unlike cars, computers don't get
>> worse with time (well, they may break)...
=Actually, sometimes Windows does get slower and less stable over
=time. As the user installs applications, the system databases
=(win.ini, system.ini or the registry) get filled up with useless
=junk and the system directories accumulate assorted libraries and
=behind-the-scenes "upgrades" are performed to the system.
Well, I meant the hardware...
-mi
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