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Subject: Re: MCP7 and DOS obstinacy

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 12:02:48 12/03/97

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On December 03, 1997 at 14:35:33, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>On December 03, 1997 at 14:12:13, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>
>> I have lost many hours with
>>MCP7 and although I have some experience in config.sys and autoexec.
>>stuff and all that hoopla, I did not get anything, except chrashes and
>>hours lost for nothing. Dear Marty, if you ever read this, please forget
>>the pedantic views of that guys that insist in DOS because they get 0,3%
>>more Elo points and think a little more in the simple fact that almost
>>all PC users are windows users and think in the also simple fact that to
>>play chess is not the reason we have a PC. I think is hard to imagine
>>nobody willing to risk his serious, working programs just trying to use
>>a DIOS program in Windows platform. Enough is enough. From now on, I
>>will concentrate in genius, Schedder or Fritz family or in any
>>reasonable winfowed program. I got tired of all this.
>>Fernando
>
>I don't know what your problem is, but I like DOS and I think it is
>still a better OS than WIN whatever.
>I also don't understand your anger.
>I don't have to change my config.sys or autoexec.bat when I want to run
>shredder, rebel9 or Wchess in x-mode or normal.
>I have a menue and I can choose between different
>startup-configurations.
>
>What is your problem with Mchess7?

Come on, Thorsten. You must be kidding. For a few days we interchanged
emails about how to make CSTal work on my computers and we didn't
succeed yet. Fernando has the same problem with Mchess 7.

I agree with Fernando wholeheartedly. The only reason I see to stay in
DOS is this miserable 5% difference in speed. We all use Windows, that's
after all how 99% of us work and contact through the Internet. DOS
programs are too often a source of problems.

Enrique



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