Re: what/where are the Vista basics?

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

I think it's free trial and then $25 if you want to keep it. There's
essentially zero support. The author, David Thomas, used to do things for
us, but now is reclusive. Also, when he does communicate, his language is
terse and fairly incomprehensible.
That said, it's worth trying It's a simple install (takes about 10
seconds), and not invasive. I'd just download whatever is the latest
version (the one he offers for downloading at tamedos.com). Give it a whirl
and see if it works for you out of the box.

Several of us here have been running Xy in Tame versions for years.
sounds interesting, but I'm suspicious and I can't find any reviews. Their
website also doesn't tell me what it costs.

Any comments, for or against this program?
also, at least one website seems to offer it for free. what's the
difference between the early or later versions?

andy t

----- Original Message ----- From: "M.W. Poirier" 
To: 
Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2009 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: what/where are the Vista basics?


 I'm about to sound like Harry, but download TAME DOS, and you will
 see your CPU usage fall. Download one of the early versions, if you
 don't need all the features of later versions.

 M. W. Poirier

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On Sat, 3 Oct 2009, Andy Turnbull wrote:
Interesting. I had heard before that dos was a memory hog in windows, but
never tested.

I run xy iiia (I can't make iv work well) in a 3-4 year old toshiba laptop,
with about 1.5 megs of ram. After reading this I did ctrl+alt+delete on
windows, selected the 'performance' tab and watched while I opened a
file and
wrote something in xywrite. cpu usage shot up to about 90%!

surprise -- but I've kept the thing open while I write this, and usage is
still running 70 - 90% -- and this is a windows program.

I wonder how the old machines got by with somuch less memory?

andy t

----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Troop" 
To: 
Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2009 5:29 PM
Subject: what/where are the Vista basics?
I guess I must enjoy the sound of groaning, or I wouldn't be asking
the following:

I've been running XyWrite IV under Vista for about a year and a half
on what was at the time a powerful Dell 1720 laptop.

Strangely, it has taken all this time for me to notice that if
XyWrite isn't running, my CPU usage is around 20% rather than 80%
when it is running. I guess that's because I use XyWrite all the time.

Obviously, there must be some basic things I have failed to set up
properly. Do we have anything resembling a Vista guide? I've done a
bit of a search through the list archives and via Google, not coming
up with anything.


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