Re: Discussion of MS products

In article <5joh81$g55@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu> timhood@bigfoot.com writes: > >This is drifting off-topic a bit (so I'll keep it short), but in light >of the recent talk of the fondness for MS products, I thought there may >be some interest in this: > >In his current column (April 21, 1997) in PC Magazine, former MacUser >columnist John Dvorak writes about a subject we don't hear much about >from the Microsoft-loving press. Mr. Dvorak laments at how bloated and >slow the operating system is on his 200MHz Pentium PC. He he talks about >the over-clogged set of files and system software on his machine, >including "DLLs the OS can't sort out", and the Registry, with "entries >long since forgotten and impossible to remove". He finally asserts that >"Microsoft has created an operating system that encourages sloppy >practices and continuously degraded performance." They did *that* back in '83, more or less. Spent the last 14 years "perfecting" their practices. FWIW, one of my databases (on a Sun SPARC) has had 2 days downtime since March 1993 and it's used 6 days/week, 10 hours/day. Informix SE. I'm finally thinking of upgrading to a new box, Solaris 2.5.1 and a new Informix port. This is not uncommon performance. Peter Wiley