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Subject: Re: Unbelievable: It's still DOS program????: AAARGHHHH!!!!!

Author: Mark Young

Date: 02:13:26 08/04/00

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On August 04, 2000 at 02:30:52, Pete Galati wrote:

>On August 04, 2000 at 01:27:12, blass uri wrote:
>
>>On August 04, 2000 at 01:12:21, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>
>>>NO!
>>
>>I read that Ed tried to translate his assembler DOS code to C in order to do it
>>a windows program and the result was that the program was 30% slower.
>>
>>Maybe it is possible to give the customer the option to choose between Dos and
>>windows when it will be clear that the windows version is significantly slower.
>>
>>Uri
>
>Besides, Dos is the best thing Microsoft ever had going.  The farther they get
>from Dos the crappier their OS gets.  And the fact that Windows 98 is allot more
>stable than Windows 95 doesn't say much because Dos is far more stable than
>either one.
>
>I'd rather see Ed's company stay with Dos, but I don't have the popular opinion.

I for one have never had a problem with windows 98, and would like to see Rebel
move away from dos. If Rebel is dos, I will be in no rush to buy it. I really
enjoy playing chess in the ChessBase GUI. And will not like stepping backwards
into the bad graphics of a dos GUI.

>
>Pete



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