Re: XYWRITE digest 1152

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My new laptop came with win2000 pre-installed, but I made a new
installation with win98.
xydos/win and other old dos/win software (Borland C++, Quattro
PRO) work fine.
Linux is good, but has some serious problems
It' s very hard to install and tune on latest models of pc (on my
laptop Linux fails to detect video chip and built-in modem)
It's not too friend with old dos software.

Date sent:   	Mon, 29 Oct 2001 02:23:37 -0500
To:       	xywrite@xxxxxxxx
From:      	Bill Mallon 
Subject:    	Re: XYWRITE digest 1152
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>
>
> Reflecting on Norman Baumann's comment about his next computer having
> Linux. I too am worried about not being able to use XY3 DOS on future
> iterations of Windows. I've now got Win98 and that is OK. But I heard it
> did not do well on Win2000 and I did not get it specifically for that. I
> likewise will avoid WinXP as I have no need for it.
>
> But what about Linux in the future? Does XyWrite run on that? Does it
> allow you to use DOS?? That would be our out if future Windows versions
> simply do not allow us to use XyW.
>
> And what about Linux or RedHat trying to revive the TTG code and selling
> it? It would seem to be a perfect match. I live in Durham, NC, home of
> Red Hat, so maybe I'll look those guys up and see what they think.
>
> Just finished a pretty good book entitled GOTO on the history of
> programming and coding. No mention of XyWrite, but a good interesting read
> about FORTRAN, COBOL, C, C++, Java, and many other programming languages.
>
> Bill
>