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re: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows 2000 and Windows XP?'
Tuesday, January 27, 2004 at 4:48 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by NR
(1 messages posted)
Oddly enough, I've never had a SINGLE problem w/ WinXP. No crashes, no hardware
conflicts, no instability, EVER, because - as you SHOULD do when installing a new
OS - I formatted my system drive and did a CLEAN install. Installing over a previous
version of the OS, such as 95, 98 or 2000, will cause nothing but problems - and
Windows isn't the only OS that has problems when doing this, I've had the same issues
w/ MacOS (including OSX...had to do a format and clean install of THAT) & Linux (RedHat
& Caldera).
Using multiple small libraries (.dlls) is the most efficient way to develop a product
such as an OS. This way, 3rd-party developers only have to call the libraries needed
by their app, giving them a much lower memory footprint when running. Same w/ the
OS: having a big 50MB library of code to access essential features means 50 more
MB of RAM the OS is using to run - memory better used by programs. Plus, having
multiple smaller libraries (as MacOS, OSX, Linux, WinNT, BeOS, NeXT, Sun, Unix, Irix,
etc.) does makes it easier to update the OS between versions and when issuing service
or bug patches. I can't believe a "Pro" computer user would claim having one big
library, or rolling it all directly into the OS - a total nightmare - is a GOOD thing.
Hell, even applications have gone the rough of dynamic linked libraries; apps such
as Photoshop used to be more central-repository oriented, and in recent years have
split off this code into multiple, well thought-out, related libraries for the reasons
listed above. Tsk Tsk.
You have old hardware? Upgrade. OS developers shouldn't be forced to deal w/ 5yr-old,
or even older, hardware forever. Legacy support can only go so far and stil allow
innovations & updates without creating what the previous poster dubbing "spaghetti
code."
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