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To: Captain Jack who wrote (74848)	1/3/2000 2:37:00 PM
From: rupert1	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

Captain: When I buy a computer I want it to walk home with me or call a cab, unpack itself, plug itself in, make intelligent and witty conversation in English and French in authentic local accents and make me a nice cup of tea. Is that too much to ask?

To: Captain Jack who wrote (74848)	1/3/2000 5:12:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Jack - AOL's various user components are notorious resource hogs - to the point where some have said "AOL thinks they own the machine". But others are going down that path too - Yahoo's instant messenger, etc. The real solution will be a consumer OS built on the NT kernel - hey, that was supposed to be released in 1998... MSFT dropped the ball on that OS, supposedly one of the reasons Brad Silverberg has moved on to greener pastures. There was never supposed to be a Win98, never supposed to be a second edition, and now the next version (which I think they called Millennium internally but I may be confused on the code name) is also built on the old DOS core. BTW, pretty much everything except games runs fine on Windows2000, which I have been using for over 6 months as my primary OS, and there is no possibility of a resource starvation. Sometimes things get slow but only when I have about 50 windows open and am doing background programming work as well...