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Cindy Hamilton > wrote:
> 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:
>>
>>> 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!
>>>
>>> John Kuthe...
>>>

>>
>> 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
>


Anyone want an old 286 with Win 3.0 on it?? Ive got one taking up space
in my garage.