Re: Another question

[hseaver@xxxxxxxx (Harmon Seaver)]

>  Since I have no need for graphical features, would I do better using
> OS/2 or something archaic, like Desqview?
>   Or would I better using my current DOS setup, a very big
> cache and a RAM disk for swapping? My priorities are speed and
> stability; I don't care much for pretty icons.
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  Neither did I -- didn't want a mouse, hated GUIs -- so I used Desqview.
And it's good -- I'd use it over windoz (which is really just a taskswitcher
too, but with a GUI) but it didn't fully multitask. Oh, I could download files
in the background, but you had to be careful -- and when I got my first
voicemail system, I found it would only work in the foreground, and didn't
sound real great even there. I started using a 286 box just for the voicemail,
networked to the 386 -- wow, two computers just for me, what a waste. Then I
tried OS/2 2.0 when it came out, just to be able to have real multitasking --
what a difference.
  Actually, I was trying Xenix before I went to OS/2 -- not for it's multiuser
capability, but for it's multitasking, but the dos emulator wasn't very good.
Linux does it better now, and I have the ability to choose whether to boot
OS/2, DOS, or Linux right from the Bootmanager.
  And the GUI sort of grows on you. Actually it's kind of fun -- I have a
bitmapped background to the screen which I change every so often -- a full
screen buddha, or the Milky Way -- right now it's Luna.
  Tell me, how much time does it take you to copy a long quote from -- say a
CD-ROM database, or one of the net databases -- onto paper by hand, then key it
into XY? Everything just gets much easier with multitasking -- it's not just
how fast the 486 will shell out to dos.

Harmon Seaver hseaver@xxxxxxxx

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