Author: Chris Whittington
Date: 12:14:00 12/03/97
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On December 03, 1997 at 15:02:48, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >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. No, DOS programs are rarely the source of the problems. These are usually to be found in some combination of hardware and end-user. Chris Whittington > >Enrique
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