The *idea* of a registry seems to be OK, but in WinDoze, it is a veritable garbage can. I think that each program should have its own *findable* (and readable) registry in the same directory that the program is stored. That might make it easier to !totally! remove a program...
And a high speed (> 1 mbit/s) connection. Just try surfing the net at
56k nowadays. you would think you were on a small lake for the "surf".
Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.
c.f. Vista.
Perhaps, linux doesn't make the fastest desktop computers run like s*it.
Maybe with 10ghz of cpu and 20GB of ram vista might run OK, but otherwise it's a steaming mountain of pig s*it.
And adobe's latest reader runs just fine under linux on my 1.4 ghz laptop with a typical 5200rpm laptop drive. If MS wrote it, you could count on it being unable to run on such hardware.
A $250 computer from 5 years ago will run extremely well w/ linux where vista won't run at all.
And microsoft does it faster than the chip makers can.
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Not to mention the 4 seconds it takes on a multiple GHz machine to empty the recycle bin with only one tiny file in it....
Meindert
But what they produce is called clogware, not software. :-)
Didi
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And screw up all file associations.
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Who WANTS to run Vista on a five year old computer?
Consider that Adobe needs 100MB hard disk space for just a reader, where others can produce a PDF reader that takes less than 1 MB and starts at least 10x faster, and you still believe Adobe is producing efficient software?
Ever tried Lotus Notes, or CM Synergy (nowadays both IBM), or Borland C++ Builder and still believe Microsoft is the only company that produces crap software.
And sometimes you can't get Linux to install at all, or only without wireless, ACPI...etc.
Your hate towards Microsoft has apparently blinded you. I don't like Microsoft, or their products, but the fact is most software companies produce utter crap (especially the bigger ones), and some manage to produce even worse crap than Microsoft. And let's face it Windows sucks, Linux sucks, they only suck in different ways. Choose your poison.
The ironic thing is Microsoft wrote part of the firmware for the Commodore 128.
no wonder it was a failure. The probably had something to do with that commadore 64 floating around that couldn't run any commadore 64 software.
Who wants to run vista on any machine?
They're not necessarily mutually exclusive- anyone remember Lynx? Gopher?
;-)
Best regards, Spehro Pefhany
Sorry. I don't remember either of those being in use in the late 70's. :-p
Actually sales wise it was a reasonable success.
Percentage wise even a larger part of the Commodore 64 firmware was written by Microsoft. I don't recall a Commodore 64 that couldn't run Commodore 64 software. The Commodore 128 did run Commodore 64 software pretty well too.
You missed the point entirely, but I guess that should have been expected. Maybe you understand when you grow up.
Go downtown with a guitar and a bucket. Maybe somebody will toss you the penny that 100MB costs. Actually, you'll have 2/3rds of the penny left to buy another 200MB.
Newsflash: files on a hard drive do not every one of them get loaded for an application to function. Stuff like help files, drm-s*it, infrequently used functions just sit on the hard drive until the user needs them.
Adobe reader runs fine and fast on a 1.4mhz laptop.
Are you still using a 200mhz P1 as your main desktop?
That must be really old. I thought my 4.77 MHz T1000 was slow.
Best regards, Spehro Pefhany
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