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Is it because it runs on Windows 95?
by cm2187 7y ago
Is it because it runs on Windows 95?
- tabtab 7y agoGood thing we improved with Windows 10 and have to reboot only every 52 days. Progress! Seriously, Windows 10 does tend to get dodgy if you don't reboot for a few weeks. I'm not the only one who's noticed. Granted, it's less likely to outright crash, but it acts increasingly drunk.
- marcosdumay 7y agoIt gets slower over time. I still can not understand how an OS can make things slower over time. I made an excercize of rebooting my work computer every Monday, but it really wasn't enough. Now I restart it every time I can.
- tpmx 7y agoIt was 49.7 days for Windows 95: https://sites.google.com/site/edmarkovich2/whywindows95andwindows98wouldcrashafter49.7daysofuptime https://sites.google.com/site/edmarkovich2/whywindows95andwi... Still, it's remarkable that two separate Seattle-based companies have produced a similarly short time bomb on very expensive and highly visible product development projects.
- JJMcJ 7y agoThis wasn't noticed for a few years after Win95 was released. The joke was that nobody had ever had a Win95 system stay up for 49 days. Mwah-hah-hah.
- nomel 7y agoGetTickCount is a monotonic timestamps still supported in Windows 10, available for any application to use. These days, you should use GetTickCount64, but any application that doesn't handle the rollover of GetTickCount is buggy.
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