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Clear as mud to me !

Posted by MGM on Tue Nov 27, 2001 08:49:25 AM

In reply top Re: Windows ME posted by Graham P on Tue Nov 27, 2001 06:41:05 AM

: Hi Christer,
:
: Yes there're both 32 bit systems. The difference is their
: design. If you think of it as a family tree then 95, 98, M
: e share one branch and NT 4, 2000, and XP another. Its mor
: e to do with the internal workings and design. The NT bran
: ch has generally been more stable due to design. MS provid
: es more protection between the application and the operati
: ng system. This makes it alot harder for an application to
: crash and take out the whole system (though it is still p
: ossible). I had a chat with a guy from Intel who as part o
: f the original 80386 design team (some years ago!!) and he
: said Intel were annoyed MS didn't use all the features of
: the chip which would provide a more stable OS. It was tim
: e to market and backward MS-DOS compatiblity issues again.
: This has always dogged the 95 branch. NT address this thr
: ough proper emulation which at the beginng was crap but wi
: th 2000 and XP looks pretty good.
:
: Hope its a little clearer...
:
: Graham P.
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