Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:37:01 12/04/97
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On December 04, 1997 at 14:33:41, Thorsten Czub wrote: >What you write is very nice and very true, but I have not changed my >autoexec.bat/config.sys for years now and they can handle any program. >I really don't understand your problems. From my point of view many >problems >have a reason in the customer trying or installing wrong or using wrong >devices or ... whatever. >If the source of a mistake is the user, NO OS can help much. >I have worked in a computer-company and they sold computers with win95 >and each monday after the week-end the customers destroyed their >machines and came with crashed machines, deleted HD, viruses, several >wrong installed and deinstalled programs etc. >This was the user at the week-end , not the machine or the programs. sorry, but I have to disagree here. A program that runs under windows does not have to know anything about the printer, video device, sound system, modem, network connection, etc. To run my various DOS games that my kids use drives me nuts, because this game only works with a soundblaster-compatible board, while I have a wavetable device from Esonique, as an example. I've never had a single win95 game fail to work flawlessly with respect to memory, video, sound, etc... IE a win95 compliant program eliminates a lot of hassle that is really not necessary. Having to boot to dos is really not the way win95 was designed to be used, and it throws away a great deal of the power that this system offers us...
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