Tom writes:

<<I'm not having any difficulties with either win 2000 or win xp on 'recent'
pc's.  I could not get ME to behave on several different Athlon thunderbird
based systems.  It always seemed to install, but quirky crashes at the
weirdest times (like when the system was basically idle) convinced me to
give up.  One of these systems in particular is rock solid now on xp.>>

Hmmm.  Although I've never built a computer, I'm convinced that computer
architecture has a lot to do with how stable the system is with various OS
versions.  I imagine that's an art rather than a science (to the extent
that results of using certain combinations of OS and hardware are
often  unpredictable until tried and tested many times and in many
different configurations).

Tom's last sentence  seems, by implication,  to confirm that.

Seems there's a lot more to building a computer (even the big names seem to
get it wrong so often) than throwing a lot of quality components together.
That's really what I meant by "poor computer setup".  I should have
amplified that by including computer architecture---Tom is quite  right in
pointing out that this has a strong bearing on computer stability.

Don Penlington



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