re XyWrite 3+ vs. Xy 4 for DOS

[W BECHSTEIN CXI00541@xxxxxxxx]

Thanks for the various comments regarding my Xy3 vs Xy4 comparison.
I am glad to hear that an OS/2 version of XyWrite is in the works
(because Warp may be somewhere in my future), but I still would
like to see some attention devoted to the DOS product as well
(after all, one of the sales points of OS/2 is that it multitasks
*DOS* applications well, is it not?). And I am a bit wary of a
scenario (playing devil's advocate again) where The Tech Group
would have XyWrite versions for three platforms (DOS, Windows,
and OS/2), with none of them being thoroughly debugged and really
stable...

As for the 4.016 bug mentioned by Myron Gochnauer, I have
experienced a similar occurrence maybe two or three times, but already with version
4.015. I don't recall the exact circumstances (except that it was
similar to what Myron described), and I don't remember what (if
anything) I did against it (helpful, ain't I?), but for the last
half year or so, 4.015 has been stable. I recently upgraded to
4.016 and haven't noticed any new bugs yet. A possible area to
investigate in relation to that problem would be a clash with the
memory manager (QEMM with Stealth, for example).
This can sometimes lead to intermittent problems which are hard
to trace.
Also, I had problems with compressed disks and Xy4DOS (using the
version of Doublespace which comes with IBM PC-DOS version 6.1).
I currently don't use disk compression.

Annie Fisher writes:

 > I gather you see v4 as two steps forward, one back; brief use
 > of v4 struck me as the reverse and I quickly reverted to v3.

Actually, my initial reaction to version 4 was the same as yours, so
I left in on the shelf for quite some time, but upon a second look,
I found that (for me), after a period of setup and adjustment,
the advantages outweighed the disadvantages.

Wolfgang Bechstein CXI00541@xxxxxxxx
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