From: Damian Yerrick <MYNAMEISd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comNO2CANNEDHAM>
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Subject: Re: Win 2000 & Djgpp
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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 13:42:20 GMT
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On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 03:19:28 -0000, "Chris Jones" <cj7 AT ukc DOT ac DOT uk>
wrote:

Windows 2000 
>has the Hibernate mode, where if you choose hibernate instead of
>Shut Down, the memory is written to disk, and then it boots up in
>15 seconds when you switch back on. Quite impressive.

Doesn't 9x have that too?  I put my laptop on standby, and it saves
the RAM to disk.  Next time I switch on, it loads all the RAM from
the hard drive.

>Well the SB Live driver included with Win2000 works fine. It autodetected
>all my hardware with no problems at all. (I was using build 2183 and now
>2195, maybe you have an early beta?)
>
>IMO, Win2000 is good value for money.

If you're thinking about supported apps per OS dollar spent,
Linux + Wine is a better value.

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