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Welcome to Wintel World, your source for quality dirt on the Wintel platform. This page documents the mediocre platform's shortcomings. Click site info and tell me what you think. Disclaimer: this page no longer represents my feelings about PCs. I now own a PC, and while it's not as nice as a Mac, it can do more neat tricks :) I just put together a custom system that has twice the amount of everything that I could've got in a Mac for the same price. Another announcment: I am releasing my game Level Editor for public use. Go to  to get it.
Problem PCs PC Magazine (Jan 20, 1998) The new IRQ scandal. This article describes why the expanability of modern PCs is compromised by their ancient IRQ standard. PC Week (Feb 10, 1997) Modem installation woes. "...we'd like to note that the Mac's version of plug and play predates the PC's, and is still better."Boardwatch magazine (Sep 97) Upgrading a PC PC World (July 1997) PC 98, almost a Mac? The Year 2000 Problem: Oh, those pesky little problems PC programmers overlooked. Check out the official web site. Mac users need not worry. the MacOS is good for another 25,000 years or so. Windoze Trouble: Why Windows95 sucks Microscoff Windoesnot95 Death of a Thousand Strings A huge article that points out alot of shortcoming in Windows 95. Ziff Davis:95 days with Windows 95. A huge article about all the annoyances of Windows 95. Windows Sources (Feb 97) Jesse Berst's article: "As an attempt to improve the human-computer interface, Windows 95 is a failure." "...the average consumer will never have anything to do with something as labyrinthine as Windows 95." "Windows 95 is so bad, I hardly know where to start."ZDNet Anchordesk (July 2, 1997) Windows 98: Why No One Cares Anymore PC Magazine (Apr 21, 1997) John Dvorak's column: "Gates and company talk about total cost of ownership and never once take responsibility for the fact that Microsoft has created an operating system that encourages sloppy practices and continuously degraded performance."Infoworld (May 5,1997) Brian Livingston's column: Three weeks ago, I wrote that my own PC is not exactly a model of stability. In fact, even after the years I've spent installing every type of application ever invented, my Windows 95 system crashes at least once or twice a day, sputtering, "Fatal exception 0E" or "GPF in Kernel32.exe."PC Computing (July 1997) Windows NT lies The Taste Test (Oct 7, 1997) See what happens when you believe NT is 'good enough' for a web server. "...Microsoft completed its two-year project to wean the company's Web server farm off competing Unix products and onto NT servers...Windows95 was picked as one of Cnet's biggest dissapointments of 1996 A 10 year old sets up a Mac faster than a PC expert sets up '95 PC. Marc Andreesen on Windows 95: From the Rolling Stone interview with Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen (May 1, 1997): Marc Andreessen: "You know, I put a CD-ROM in my computer, and it doesn't work, I don't know why. My printer doesn't work right now - I'm getting weird error messages, and then it stops printing after a while. It freezes all the time. It crashes." Rolling Stone: "Is this a Mac or Windows machine?" MA: "This is a Windows box. This isn't complicated stuff; this is a Dell Pentium PC running Windows 95, running standard applications like Word and Excel. It's just far too complicated to actually try to understand. Many people who work in the PC industry have technical-support staffs that come in and fix things so they run properly, so these people don't notice this. But for most people, it's just a nightmare."Douglas Adams on Windows 95: The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place. -Douglas Adams, on Windows '95Brian Hook's finger info A programmer on the Quake development team's view of MicroSoft compilers. Intel Outside: Intel Secrets -- What Intel Doesn't Want You To Know. Let's count the bugs and undocumented instructions in the x86 architecture. Intel's pretty pissed about it. 3D Hype 98 How Intel's new i740 3D graphics chip is slower than all the commercial 3D cards out there. It also explains why WinBench 3D doesn't have much to do with real world 3D graphics performance. Byte magazine June 97 Alternatives to Intel CPUs. Tom's Hardware Guide AMD K6 An alternative to Intel. C'Net Aug 27, 1997 Motorola Chips Ahead of Intel "The Pentium II will not be available in a notebook version until 1998 because of power consumption and heat issues. The PowerPC 750, on the other hand, is expected to find its way into notebook PCs from Apple and possibly other Macintosh clone vendors this year." "The fact that an even faster version of the chip was running in a notebook showed the advantages this design has over Intels newest processor, the Pentium II."Anti-Intel Association Anti-MS: There's plenty of people out there that hate the evil empire. Remember, there are always better solutions than M$-ware. The Microsoft Hate Page (awesome)The Anti-Microsoft Page The Anti-Microsoft UK Page The Anti-Micro$oft Association The Wonderful World of MicroSoft Stop MicroSoft MicroSoft Watch MicroSuck MicroMuckery (nice sign) Redmond Rose MS ruined this woman's life when she pointed out some of their bugs. The MSBC Anti-MicroSoft Site Superlist Yamoo Yet Another MicroSoft Oriented Oracle. A Yahoo style index of anti (and pro) MicroSoft links. It's the best index of its kind I've seen. TechWire (May 20, 1997) Anti-MicroSoft sites are all over the net. Computerworld (July 24, 1997)Windows NT no match for Unix, IDC says NT server vs. workstation: no difference? Another way MicroSoft is ripping you off. They cripple NT workstation's ability to be a web server. You have to pay three times more to get the server version, and this ensures you also use their web server. Boycott MicroSoft Say no to monopolies. Get their bumper sticker. Boycott Micro$oft a different site The MicroSoft Boycott Campaign The Gneech's Micro$oft Boycott Page Be MicroSoft free Opposing the MircoSoft juggernaught A San Jose Mercury article on MicroSoft's monopolistic behaviors. July 2, 1997 Congress may extend Microsoft probe (July 2, 1997) Congress may have to get medieval on MicroSoft's ass. San Francisco Chronicle (July 12, 1997) "By controlling the browser market, attorney Reback charged, Microsoft `can control where your eyes go in Internet commerce.' For example, it can configure Internet Explorer's Channel buttons to favor certain Web sites that pay Microsoft or that Microsoft owns."monopoly article Reason Magazine (Jan 98) An article on the way MicroSoft operates. Quotes from Bill Gates Society Against MS Internet Explorer Support Group for People Used by Microsoft MicroSoft Parodies: The Microsnot Corporation The Micropap Corporation MicroSoff Microsoft & Windoze Jokes: Windows jokes (Check out the Microsoft Christmas song) Windows 95 & Mac Joke Wallpaper A bunch of nifty things to put on your desktop. Graeme's Windoze 95 Badges Windoze startup screens. Some Windows 95 top ten lists Collection of Windows jokes and graphics. Greg's Microsoft Humor Page. The Internet Multimedia Windows 95 Demo!!! Windows C source code The source code to MS marketing (hilarious) What if MicroSoft built cars? What if the Mir computer ran Win95? MicroSoft Panhandler Page 3 of the manual for Macromedia Extreme 3D has the following requirements for using their software: For Macintosh: 68040 (or later) processor. (Power Macintosh is recommended for professional production work.) For Windows: 486 processor or higher. (Power Macintosh is recommended for professional production work.) -customer: "I have Windows 95 on my computer." -tech: "Yes." -customer: "My computer isn't working right." -tech: "Yes. You already told me that." ______________________________________
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