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Subject: Re: why?

Author: Mike S.

Date: 16:10:46 03/24/01

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On March 24, 2001 at 18:27:17, Pete Galati wrote:

>On March 24, 2001 at 18:06:38, liam hearns wrote:
>>write a program like rebel in dos ???????????great program but why all theses
>>years in dos?
>
>I like Dos, don't know about anyone else, but I like it.

Me too. Furthermore, Century runs fine in Windows AFAIK (somebody please correct
me if I'm wrong), just some MB RAM gets "wasted" this way. Some time ago, I did
performance comparisons with Rebel 9 IIRC, running with the same hash size first
in DOS, and then in Windows. If you have no other program running, there is
virtually no performance impact from Windows (strange situation, when "no
performance impact" is a positive result... :o)

I don't have the latest versions, but I think, with a proper windows installer
which produces all the usual icons etc., the difference shouldn't matter that
much.

On the other hand, what a DOS program lacks in Windows, are the data exchange
functions via copy & paste, i.e. while browsing a website (especially important
for chess message board readers). Maybe there are more examples like this I'm
not aware of.

Regards,
M.Scheidl



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