Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 11:06 am
I have a wife and 7 children. Each family member has its own PC. That makes a total of 9 plus a PC as a file server and a PC for testing purposes. Some of the PCs are already rather old (the oldest one is a Pentium 133, another is a Pentium 200 and there are several AMD K6 500 and Pentium III 700 and the fastest are 2 Pentium IV systems). 2 PCs are running with Win95A and 1 PC with Win95C. All PCs run legal licences of Windows. I hope you understand that it is no UFO stuffricardo wrote:What can be de reason for still using w95???? Crazy? Joke? Rebel?
This is harder for me to understand that the UFO stuff or some other strange things he he
to use old hardware (which in most cases my employer dumped to the garbage bin and which I was able to take home and repair) and old OS software. Since I am a programmer who makes his living and that of his family by working as a programmer and I am not rich enough to buy every 2 years 11 new PCs and 11 new Windows licences and I am so honest to use only legal licenced sotware I have no other choice as to use old hardware and software. (Unfortunately no one of my family is willing to use a Linux OS; I already tested several distributions but unfortunately the acceptance is very low 
)Another matter is WinNT. There are still lots of businesses and public administrations (at least in Germany) which still use WinNT. Although most of them are probably planning to migrate to WinXP or Vista there is still a considerable number of NT systems "in the wild". My employer still has 2200+ WinNT systems in use so I consider it a quite arrogant attitude to taunt about WinNT and give the "good" advice to use a "proper" OS. What should you do as programmer if you are paid to still program for WinNT?
