On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 21:31:50 -0000, Andrew Coppin wrote:

> Had to reboot XP due to a number of blue screens now... (The first one was
> 11.9 seconds after the very first time I ever turned on the laptop, which
> was a gift... "hmmm" was what I believe I said at the time...) I prefer
> WinNT myself - seems much more reliable. But hey, I've got XP here, so I'm
> not paying to change it...
> 
> On a more PR-themed note... I firmly believe that it's impossible to have
> enough processing power to do what you want to do with something like a
> raytracer (or fractal generator btw). Of course, a good optimisation goes a
> long way ;-)
> 
> Andrew.
> 
> PS. Win2k looks like it's evil. Shame that's what I'm gonna be using at
> work...

Win NT 4? *shudder*... I think XP is the best of the Windowses right now 
(if that's a real word). I've always thought of 2000 as XP without the 
pretty interface. And BTW, the only time I've ever gotten a BSOD on XP was 
when I overclocked my vid card too much. Of course, we wouldn't have this 
problem if video card companies smartened up and started making RTRT cards 
instead! ;-)

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