On Wednesday, September 19, 2018 at 10:50:58 AM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 9/19/2018 10:05 AM, John Kuthe wrote:
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> > And at first Windows was a pretty good GUI shell script! Then it fell victim to the "kitchen sink syndrome"!! And that was just between Win 3.1 and Win NT! Then Win XP made it even bloatier but at least XP was a little more stable than all the rest since Win 3.1!
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> > John Kuthe...
> >
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> Most of us never saw the bloat with XP but is was far better than its
> predecessors. When I left work we still had an XP machine used for
> monitoring a process. As long as the hard rive holds out it will
> probably work for another decade or two.

I've got an XP machine as one of the 6 computers in my office. I
build some of our software on it daily. I've got another one that's
powered down. It was upgraded to XP from Windows 2000.

Cindy Hamilton