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Re: Win98 versus 2000, XP, Longhorn, etc.
de mike 06/22/2006 08:40
Craig <netburgher@REMOVEgmail.com> wrote in
news:GRymg.120463$dW3.95594@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com:
> ms wrote:
>>
>>lots of my usual settings are more difficult in W2K, W98SE
>> was always easy to set up. In W2K, Task Manager has so much normal
>> crap listed, it's useless to me.
>>
>> Mike Sa
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> "more difficult," and "so much normal crap" pretty much sum up the
> differences between dos- and ntfs-based oses. <g>
>
Hello, Craig
I'm drifting OT here, so don't tell the polizei, but what's the difference
between DOS and other systems.
I ask because in 98, I can get behind the OS and kick it intosubmission
with DOS, even though I've only the barest Dos competence; and other people
use it to do miracles with batch files etc.
And (I theeenk) linux is like dos in that you can get down to bedrock.
But in NTFS, what do you do if the OS jams? Can you get out of it, like a
Dos boot floppy will get you going again, even if only to format and
reinstall!
It's not so much the technicalities of the file system I'm bothered about,
its the getoutofjail abilities; and why I've so far avoided XP
mike