Ben A L Jemmett wrote: > > And now all we need is dumplin, something to load the dos > > kernel. > > Ctrl-Alt-Delete. Or does DOS take longer to boot than you always say? > > > Be kinda nice too, to have a NIX that loaded as few > > shared files as possible that havta be closed beforehand. > > Huh? What? Shared files are rarely opened for writing, I dunno the nomenclature Ben, all I know is that it takes Linux much longer to shut down than it does for dr-dos to boot, which makes the switch back to dos inconvenient.
As for the fact that the rest of the world has gone GUI, I have no dog in that fight. I dont do much work with graphics, 99%+ is reading and writing text like this. Maybe that makes me unusual, I dunno. But if they need to work with images, then maybe they should stick with GUIs. I find that I more often work with long texts, like copies of entire novels, and I note that when I do that in a GUI, it is slower than slugs on beer. The average page of a book is 65 characters long, @45 lines per page. About 3K. So, a 400 page book would be about 1.2 gig, but after PKZIP does it, more like 300k, and I might do that once a week. So, I dont spend a lotta time waiting for 'long downloads'. I only get about a dozen emails outside of SPAM a day, so I dont spend a lotta time waiting for that to come down either. And if I get something I wanna keep, I copy it to a dos drive, which is never online and exposed to sabotage software. Like a lotta rural folks, I only work at one computer, and the only networking is thru the modem to the ISP. Multi-tasking under these conditions is a trivial issue. If the computer takes a long time with a task, I'll get up and go do the dishes. I can multitask in my own way, I have that kind of life. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
