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 18:01:31 GMT
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On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 16:21:40 -0000, "Chris Jones" <cj7 AT ukc DOT ac DOT uk>
wrote:

>> > Windows 2000 has the Hibernate mode
>> 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.
>
>Yes, you're right. But Win2000 supports it for desktop computers too.

That's funny.  Why do laptops get all the cool fast-start features
first?

>> >IMO, Win2000 is good value for money.
>>
>> If you're thinking about supported apps per OS dollar spent,
>> Linux + Wine is a better value.
>
>It was a figure of speech. No, I wouldn't pay the $87 price for Win2000,
>because I don't think that an operating system is worth that much money.
>How good is Wine at running Win32 apps?

It supports all of Win16 and 90% of Win32.  Heck, it (almost) runs
Office 97.  Go to WineHQ.com and find out more.

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