Author: Michael Cummings
Date: 06:05:31 08/04/00
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On August 04, 2000 at 05:13:26, Mark Young wrote: >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 We cannot go back to DOS, that is stupid and will never happen, I would love to see you try to even surf the net with all the new stuff around with DOS and see how you like it. I know DOS, I hate DOS, windows is of course allot better, thats not to say that the bugs are not crap, but it is certainly better than DOS, there can be no argument.
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