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TekWiz
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Hi! I started with computer in 1978 - Commodore Pet, Apple II, Wang. C-64, C-128, Amiga 500, Amiga 3000. The Amiga of 1991 is far superior to Windows in terms of multitasking. Sure there were limits but they were hardware based. Today it seems that Windows is limited by the same horrible programming of the original DOS.
I have been using Windows since 1995 and the #1 most annoying thing is that I can't open many windows before Windows doesn't work anymore.
What I am specifically talking about is the inablity to open more than a couple large programs and a few windows, or just many windows. They should call it "few windows" instead of "windows". I wonder how many Windows one can open in Mac OSX.
Please look here at this post and see how I was attacked for asking the question:
http://computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/151324.html
I tested a clean copy of XP and the result was that I was only able to open 37 IE browser windows (google page) and 16 Windows Explorer windows. This was on a 256 MB machine. The problem isn't RAM it's "resources" in the Windows stack I understand...
Please test this on Mac OSX and see how many browser windows/finder? windows you can open before you can't open anymore or wierd things start happening...
If what I suspect is true WindowsXP is truely a pile of junk...
For more info on "resources" in Windows look here: http://www.apptools.com/rants/resources.php
The article claims no limits in NT/XP but not according to real-world experience. I did notice Win2000 was more capable but I'm not sure--was a long time ago.
I have been using Windows since 1995 and the #1 most annoying thing is that I can't open many windows before Windows doesn't work anymore.
What I am specifically talking about is the inablity to open more than a couple large programs and a few windows, or just many windows. They should call it "few windows" instead of "windows". I wonder how many Windows one can open in Mac OSX.
Please look here at this post and see how I was attacked for asking the question:
http://computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/151324.html
I tested a clean copy of XP and the result was that I was only able to open 37 IE browser windows (google page) and 16 Windows Explorer windows. This was on a 256 MB machine. The problem isn't RAM it's "resources" in the Windows stack I understand...
Please test this on Mac OSX and see how many browser windows/finder? windows you can open before you can't open anymore or wierd things start happening...
If what I suspect is true WindowsXP is truely a pile of junk...
For more info on "resources" in Windows look here: http://www.apptools.com/rants/resources.php
The article claims no limits in NT/XP but not according to real-world experience. I did notice Win2000 was more capable but I'm not sure--was a long time ago.