In article <4dp4e1$rt3@news.megalink.net>, riddler@megalink.net (Wayne Riddle) writes:
>hadin21992@aol.com (Hadin21992) wrote:
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>>i have heard a lot about windows95(all bad) and i am just wondering.
>>which is better windows 95 or windows 3.0 (which i am using now). it
>>might be a good idea to tell you that i can't run any recent version of
>>aol so i have to use dos 1.6 version. which is the sorriest piece of crap
>>i have ever seen. WHY WON'T ANYONE SELL 3.1 ANYMORE??????
>>Hadin21992@aol.com
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>You can still buy Windows 3.11 (Just saw it at Staples). Go with WFW
>3.11. IMO, go with Win95, it is much better than Windows 3.XX.
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>Wayne Riddle
>riddler@megalink.net
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IMHO there is absoulutely nothing wrong with Win95 as such. Any problems seem to be caused by backward-compatability issues, but that is only to be expected: the world can't sit still forever.
Buying Win 3.11 is probably not a good idea. If you wan't to beoucott Windows, or have some undefined hatred for Microsoft (which is a silly, and pointless attitude), then fine. By all means, go with OS/2. I can judge Win95 and OS/2 on their merits. Both have good points and bad points, but I wouldn't say that either one is necessarily better than the other.
To return to my point, though, buying an out-of date version of a product isn't generally a good idea, unless there are significant compatability issues with the new version, which is not really the case here. Upgrading a system is a different matter altogether - there are a lot more issues involved.