I agree with John.  I regard Win '95 as close to a miracle, to provide hardware
transparency on all of the different platforms, and to continue to support all
of the DOS stuff.  Microsoft deserves its success.

Jim



> Date:          Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:02:01 -0500
> Reply-to:      John Zoltak <[log in to unmask]>
> From:          John Zoltak <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject:       Re: Does this ring a bell?
> To:            [log in to unmask]

> Is Windows flaky sometimes, hard to configure, etc? Sure! But consider
> the many different types of hardware is has to run on. People want it to
> run on $200 to $20,000 hardware with a plethora of configurations and
> work the same way. Consider the different applications that we have
> running on a HP3000, a machine made and controlled by one vendor, an
> operating system made and controlled by one vendor, and we can still
> have problems getting some of these applications to work because of
> different configurations. And we haven't even figured in the dollar
> difference. So I'm not one who usually defends Microsoft, but I will say
> that it was/is a great effort to get Windows, working the way it is.
>
> P.S. Don't even start the MAC argument!
>
> John Zoltak
> North American Mfg Co
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ron Seybold [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 1998 3:42 PM
> > To:   [log in to unmask]
> > Subject:      Re: [HP3000-L] Does this ring a bell?
> >
> > Hello Friends:
> >
> > Alfredo posts a link to a Web page bemonaning the complexity of
> > computing
> > under Windows. Joe Geiser replies with some very sensible technical
> > advice,
> > and explanations about how to get around some of it. I thank the maker
> > for
> > people with Joe's experience, or users around the world would be in
> > worse
> > shape than they are in today.
>         <snip>
>

Jim Kramer /Lund Performance Solutions
Director of Research and Development
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