Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Downgrade Nightmare....

Hi Ian:

On the other hand, XP is faster than any previous version of windows and
up to twice as fast as 2000 on many apps. It appears more stable than any
other as well.
Microsoft has moved many of their GUI API's to ring0, so the system has
much less overhead in doing graphics work.

I run 2 dual boot systems (winME,WinXP / WinXP/Win2000) at the same time
and have found XP to be extremely stable compared to the rest, it does have
the same problem as unix though, if you get a spontaneous reboot while
working in things that can cause a reboot ( I get alot), files can be lost
or corrupted. I suspect WinXP is trying to make their file system a little
closer to the unix system and performs alot of cacheing and Inode type
work).

(PS, if all goes well, XP version of Master5 beta could be out in as little
as 2 weeks. (if no more snags develop, I had the Master5 pulsing engine
doing 50K per second tonight, but the beta will be locked at a lower speed
while the beta bugs are ironed out.)

Art
Master5 Software
http://users.andara.com/~fenerty/master.htm

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian W. Wright" <Ian@...>
To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Downgrade Nightmare....


> > From what I understand about Windows >XP, there's a "telephone for your
> code"
> > to keep the OS running, which I find more >than a little onerous.
>
> New Scientist describes XP's registration process as 'like using a cattle
> prod on its users' to gather information from them which it can then use
for
> marketing and perhaps sale to third parties. As far as I am concerned this
> is a perfectly good reason to avoid using the product! Anyway, the people
I
> know who are using it have had more problems than I do with Win2K. Once
you
> get over the initial difficulties of finding drivers that will work with
> Win2K (and it does already have more drivers built in than any of the
> previous windoze releases), it is actually very stable and on two machines
> running it for several months, I haven't had one crash yet.....(fingers
well
> crossed!!! )
> When you install it, you are also given the option of staying with the
FAT32
> filesystem rather than converting to its more normal NT filesystem so that
> may give a bit more compatibility with some older software - I don't know
as
> I haven't tried it.
>
> I suspect that it may be time for our correspondent to try Linux.... ;o)
>
> Best wishes,
> Ian
> --
>
> Ian W. Wright
> Sheffield, UK
>
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