Re: HELP! PC connect Unix informix database by Openlink ODBC
Posted in 1997
William Harris wrote: } } I don't know that I'd go so far as to say that. I ran Windows 95 on a } 486/25SX and while slow it certainly wasn't unusable. Usability is a matter of perception, and is therefore very subjective. To me, Win95 on less than my Pentium 100 is pure masochistic torture! I consider the performance to be just average. And 16MB to be a minimum configuration, 32MB more reasonable. } } >In my somewhat jaded opinion, migrating to Win95 won't eliminate a lot } >of time and effort trying to get things to work, you'll just have } >different tasks to undertake. } } Agree. From the developer standpoint, Windows 95 suffers from the same } "install overload" that Windows 3.1 had; at some point, you may well have to } reinstall from scratch just to get rid of the annoying accretions left by } installing/uninstalling various software packages... And like sheep we continue to pony up our bucks to the software demons, making Bill richer and richer. But that's a whole 'nother thread that's even more off the subject than this one.