On 5/14/2008 8:03 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I consider it practically a miracle that Windows works as well as it
does, but the complexity has not been lost on many video game
publishers, who have retreated to the more static game consoles.
Of course, you could always update Windows to ubuntu.
If and when the four major programs that I depend on daily
(WordPerfect, Thunderbird, Firefox and Folio Bound VIEWS - my
communications law legal research database engine - come out with 100%
Linux native versions (WINE won't handle the database program and I
didn't try it on the others) I will consider going back to Linux (I ran
Red Hat for a while).
Heck, before I went to Windows I ran IBM's OS/2 and its derivative
eComStation - which ran DOS and Win3 programs as well as native OS/2
programs - for many years until Folio dropped the 16-bit (Win3) support
and more and more applications required "real" 32-bit support.
My ham stuff runs in a separate machine (running Win 2000 at present) so
I can play with that without messing up my "main" machine.
I've ranted about this for years, so I'll get down from my soapbox and
behave.....
--
73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402
VP - General Counsel & Engineering Manager
CSI Telecommunications, Inc. - Consulting Engineers
San Francisco, CA - Beaverton, OR
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