Hi Ken,
My wife's recreational game machine is a refurbed Dell running ME. Except
for a few times when it tells her that she can't run one of her DOS games
(Weltris), it works fine. Why abandon a working system?
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Ken Norton" <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] OT: eBay Display Format
>> Honestly, it's time to move on from XP. It was EOL years ago.
>
>
> Well, I use it because it works far better than VISTA in almost every
> way. VISTA is the ME of operating systems. Pure garbage on so many
> levels. There was a reason why 98SE was the defacto standard for years
> and years.
>
> The new OS from Redmond is far better than VISTA, but like VISTA, is
> not compatible with some computer programs which require more direct
> hardware control. The audio/video editors, for instance, have lost all
> linkage with the hardware. The only solution to the problem is to make
> everything faster so the delays through the processing backbone fall
> within an acceptable timeframe.
>
> Speaking of ME, we continue to buy specialized test gear with ME
> installed. This is brand-new equipment! The reason has to do with the
> fact that was the last Windows OS that allowed the programs to
> directly access installed cards in the slots through the buss directly
> and not through the OS. XP was pretty bad about this, but VISTA
> totally broke any remaining linkages.
>
> This is why most test gear uses LINUX.
>
> AG
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