[OFB Cafe] Old Computers for Old Guys

[Derek Broughton]

On July 14, 2008 18:34:31 saki wrote:
> Timothy Butler wrote:
> >> My first (PC) GUI, and shortly after my first mouse. I still
> >> remember my
> >> excitement at seeing the cursor move around the screen.
> >
> > 	What was your first GUI, Terence?
>
> I rather think it may have been GEM, but may have been Windows 3.1.
> Whichever it was it was flakey but fun.
>
> Reboots of the M$ OS were common, and don't seem to have changed much,
> judging by my copy of M$ XP Pro.....

My uptime on the XP Pro system is on the order of months.  It's as stable as 
my Linux system (now, I push the Linux system to its limits while the XP 
system mostly only does Outlook, these days - and it's pretty poor at 
that...).
-- 
derek