Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 10:16:50 12/06/97
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Hi Don: I am the guy that begun all this due to my dissapointment with MCP7 and I would hate that in a way or another the so called technies thinks that we, the so called -with a somewhat open despective tone-"end users" belive that W95 is the very best thing. No, we don't believe it. I toyed a while with Warp OS-2 and I saw at once that was far superior, but then I met with the sad fact I have not too many programs to run into it, beginning with chess. Technological history is full of anecdotes about far superior products that were killed by inferiuor but better supported or marketed competitors. Entire lines of development were closed because of the action of economical and sometimes political powers. Few people knows that electric car were developed before internal combustion engines cars, but were putted aside because were not so easy to develop as a commercial enterprise. NTSC standar of american TV is the result of jyst a convenience between the companies, being far ing¡ferior to Pal or Secam systems. And so and so. Nevertheless, once that for any reason a preponderance is stablished, we, customers and end-users, can do nothing except to optimize what is the available product and that product is now W95 AND the way to optimize an OS is to get all running on it. Is just a matter of economy, to save time, effort, etc. Techie people forget sommetimes the esential of life, the sense of proportions and priorities. I dont believe is to be smart to know how to handle intrincacies of DOS, but to get a system to forget that intrincacies and get the task done. Then, when we ask windows 95 chess programs is not because we are completely ignorant of this stuff or we are idiots following blindly the intrigues of Microsoft, but because we don't want to expend the time we have allocated to play chess in trying to configure the system to play chess another day.What is morte, I don't care if a ptrogram is or nott DOS based as much I can launch it from W95 without problems as Rebel 8 and 9. Is too much ask to ask all programmers to do the same that Ed do? Fernando
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