This discussion seems to have gone in two directions, which boots quicker and which is more stable?
Trying to compare the systems on a Boot Time basis is just nuts in my opinion, XP has so much more to load than your average Amiga. In an effort to make XP universal, it comes out of the box ready to automatically configure a plethora of hardware devices. That's gotta take up some space. OK, so it's bloatware, you won't get any argument from me on that. But I have to wonder what Amiga OS would be like if it had equal quantities of development and industry usage over the years. The requirement to keep up with the times would probably have bloated Amiga OS somewhat as well.
I teach low-level IT subjects (Hardware/SysAdmin/Networking)and run a classroom with a number of Windows 2003 Server/XP-Pro domains. I have been teaching since 2000 and have experienced usage of a variety Windows OS's in a classroom environment. All the PC's the students use are identical to each other and the OS is also identical and reimaged daily, so it's as if it's a new install everytime the students sit down for a new class.
In 2000 I was using Win98 clients with NT4 servers, a dreadful combination, and while the NT4 servers were reasonably stable, providing you didn't try and install something on them, the Windows 98 boxes were forever crashing.
A year or so later we moved to Win2000 servers and clients at this point I found Windows to be stable and fast. When you have 16 students installing loads of Apps, Utils and adding new hardware and drivers simultaneously, it was amusing to see random Win98 crashes on some machines, even though all students are doing exactly the same thing at the same time on an the same operating system build, that seemed to be mostly gone with the introduction of Win2000.
Now I'm using XP/2003 and again it's proving to be a stable environment, but I personally feel that the Windows 2000 environment was faster and more stable.
One thing I have noticed is that apllications under XP crash more frequently than they did on 2000, but at least when the App goes belly up, it dosen't take the OS with it. XP closes the program and usually you can restart the program and continue without a reboot required.
XP is more stable in my opinion.
During my recent foray into bringing all my Amiga's back to life and building them all into working systems again I have taken many visits to the GURU. I had in fact forgotten just how frequent this was, and back in the day, I guess I just took it forgranted or saw it as the normal operation of an Amiga.
All that said Amiga's RULE :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :-D
