Author: Albert Silver
Date: 01:49:14 11/19/98
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On November 18, 1998 at 20:14:37, wayne johnson wrote:
>Microsoft dos may end; but, there is still alot of dos machines being used.
>I have a few dos chess programs that compute much faster and more
>accurately--then supposedly better windows counter-parts--when I run them on a
>486 intel 100mz chip. There are quite a few chessplayers at my local club who
>only own an ibm xt and they seem to do just as well in their ratings. So if you
>have children and can't really afford a IBM clone that runs at 300mz--and the
>professional chess software programs that also cost alot of green. I don't
>forsee a complete end to dos.....
Quite true. Here in Brazil, apart from the really rich companies, 386's and
486's are the norm. Even a few innovative (for Rio) newstands control their
sales and inventory with a low-end machine. Besides, the future of OSs seems to
be either limited to bloatware or Linux (though music program specialists seem
to like beOS). Time will tell. For a funny article on the upcoming Windows 2000,
you might like to see John Dvorak's article in PC Magazine Online:
http://www8.zdnet.com/pcmag/insites/dvorak/jd.htm
Albert Silver
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