Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 16:32:19 10/29/99
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On October 29, 1999 at 09:45:53, Steven Schwartz wrote:
>I was also wondering why some customers thought Rebel Century
>was a Windows program...
>
>Then I took a look back at our web site description of the Century
>(which is the same as is on the Rebel site) and noticed the following
>text...
>
>"REBEL CENTURY is the successor of Rebel 10 and is a goodbye to DOS,
>an era (and century) will be closed forever. Future REBELs will only
>run on Windows 95/98/NT platforms."
>
>I suppose that this sentence COULD mean one of two things:
> 1) Rebel DOS programs were gone ("goodbye") and now we have Century
>OR
> 2) Century is the last of the DOS programs.
>
>When I first read it, I knew exactly what it meant (and I know that
>Ed thought so too), but I can now see how some might have thought that
>Century was the first in a line of Rebel Windows programs.
>Steve (ICD/Your Move)
Yes that sentence can be taken two ways. And with all the talk about the Rebel
ChessPartner version, which has been going on for quite some time, I thought
that Rebel Century was a windows program. I remember after Rebel 10c update,
that the next version of Rebel will be windows.
It was not till someone posted that they had some screen shots of this program a
few days ago, that when I went to look at them (cause the Rebel homepage takes
forever to load for me) that I saw what looked like still a DOS program.
I tried to load the Rebel Homepage again cause I was still confused, only to
have it still take forever to load, then eventually gave up.
It was not till I saw a post saying "Rebel, a windows program ?" that I finally
got that it was still a DOS program.
So I have an idea, how about a poll question on it :)
Did you know that Rebel Century was a DOS Program
1 - YES
2 - NO
3 - abstain (for the people who did not know, and do not want to vote cause
they feel pretty stupid after all this time that they did not
realise it was still DOS. :)
Of course the part added to abstain is a joke, but the poll question might be
interesting.
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