"Andy Hall" wrote in message
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On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 21:45:29 +0100, "G&M"
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"Andy Hall" wrote in message
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Where's DIMM, has he broken his hacksaw blade or what?

Probably runs on Windows 3.1 and still booting up for the month.

You're kidding. On a modern hyper-fast machine that boots up in seconds.
Only Microsoft could optimise an OS over time for slowing overall
performance.



Mmmm.... but who said anything about modern hardware?

MTBF of computer PSUs and hard disks mostly. They reach an age where you
simply can't suffer the increasing noise anymore. Of course one can buy new
bits but at that point most people decide their PC is so old anyway it's
time for a new one.