Nothing luddite at all there, dear Howard. I use this old DOS (only) machine still for about 90+ % of my work - and the rest, with non-text things, takes 90 % of my work_time_, bandwidth, and connection fees. Quite a bad balance for the whole pixelmania and GUI hype.
And DOS is not dead at all - just quietly used by lots of people. Only there are no accidents with it, no virus scandals, no endless "administration" hassles. Thus not much talk about - it just works. As for the one or two Windows - or rather, GUI-conditioned - tasks, I would organise it the other way round: having DOS as the usual working base, and booting something else for these rare occasions. There, Winnos is not the better choice any more as it sabotages DOS in fact, while one of the more easily-installed Linux "distributions" would co-exist nicely and would offer the GUI functionalities which DOS has difficulties to deliver. But working with a Linux setup in text mode is a PITA - despite all "powerful" features of the "system", it's an ergonomic desaster. So back to DOS is the message. // Heimo Claasen //<revobild at revobild dot net>// Brussels 2003-12-37 The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read ==> http://www.revobild.net 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
