Went Back To Windows(R)...

[Doug]

On 07/30/2011 06:57 AM, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 19:51, Hal Burgiss<hal at burgiss.net>  wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Jesse Palser<SLNTHERO at aol.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Just thought I would share my opinion that current Windows(R) is
>>>> really not too bad.
>>>>
>>> No, its not bad. It sucks out loud. You should really qualify such
>>> remarks. Did they EVER get multiple desktops?
>> No.
> I'm pretty sure that there's support for that in both the ATi and NVidia
> drivers, but not by default in Windows itself or with anybody else's
> graphics chipsets.
>
> [...]
>
>>> How many filesystem types are
>>> supported?
>> How many does Linux support? If you are referring to ext3, then
>> support can be installed.
> I'm suspect that Linux supports more than Windows, depending on what
> precisely you term 'linux'. But number-of-supported-filesystems is a
> crap way to compare OSs anyway - the point, if any, should be the
> quality of FS. I'm pretty sure either OS can be persuaded to use
> anything the other can.
>
Apparently dual monitor configuration can be done in software.  About
25 years ago, a program, EEsof Touchstone, a microwave circuit CAD
program, would do dual monitors in Windows 95, or maybe it was even in
DOS.  One of the techs where I worked set it up that way, and I made
him put it back--it drove me crazy! (It was set so that one screen
showed the node list (text) circuit description, and the other showed
the graphical results of the circuit simulation--S11, S21, or whatever
you had asked for.)

--doug, WA2SAY

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