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3 Sep 2024 23:26:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: A Sneaking Suspicion  
From: Invisible
Date: 16 Jul 2010 09:43:01
Message: <4c4061e5$1@news.povray.org>
scott wrote:
>> (I *have*, however, noticed a significant stability difference. When 
>> WinXP first came out, nobody would touch it because it was so damned 
>> unstable...)
> 
> Personally I (and many others) found XP very stable even from the beta 
> stages.  I thought we came to the conclusion (when this subject came up 
> before) that you had some buggy hardware drivers or something on your XP 
> installation (didn't it blue screen during boot or something?).

It hit a BSoD 14 seconds after first boot, yes.

I wouldn't mind, but lots of other XP computers seemed unstable and 
crash-happy too. Yet today, it's quite unusual for an XP system to 
crash. I guess all those service packs fixed one or two bugs.


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