Sometimes it's really a shame that the software and hardware goes hand in hand so that they do. I'm talking about the performance. As soon as someone invents a faster processor, a better video card or update any other component, someone do a game, a program or an operating system that exploits this.

Or is it the other way around? Is it the software companies that drives hardware development? "Give us these resources, so that we can create this", perhaps it sounds at the meetings. No, of course, it is neither. Instead the the development follows of a common line and the law that all available resources always exploited follows automatically, in the same way you adjust expenditure after salaries, but if possible you would be happy to adjust the salary after expenses. Any way the demand goes up.

The reason I philosophizing about this is that the other day by some reason I needed to install Windows 98 on a relatively new computer - it had no more than a year or two in the neck. Of course, this meant some problems with drivers, my registry cleaner and so on, but once it was up and running it run so smoothly that it was absolutely unbelievable...

I have never seen such a speed monster. The old Windows 98 was like a turtle in a 3 gigahertz CPU (or whatever it was) that I was very blessed. It went so blazing fast that the operations were carried out almost before I clicked on them.

And, of course, I hoped that it would be the same in Windows XP or Vista, as it is unfortunately not. In normal mode, without errors and problems, it works quite OK, the games are moving on OK and the operating system jogs along at its own pace - but it doesn't flash.

Well not many people want to go back to DOS or Windows 98, but give us instead five times faster CPU and memories now! And forbid further development of programmes...