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Subject: Re: MCP7 and DOS obstinacy

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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