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Subject: Re: Progress and convenience

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 10:14:23 05/14/03

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On May 14, 2003 at 09:24:09, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On May 14, 2003 at 00:56:53, Harald Faber wrote:
>
>>On May 13, 2003 at 13:23:03, Ed Schröder wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I have a fine working DOS interface and I am most happy with it.
>>>
>>>Ed
>>
>>
>>Do you still have a coal oven and no electricity?
>
>From the user's point of view you may have a point, but since Ed is retired, he
>is no longer concerned with being the slave of the users. That said, DOS is an
>easier environment to do assembly programming in, since you can program in real
>mode instead of protected mode (which is what you get in windows). So for Ed,
>DOS probably _is_ more convenient.

Excellent statement, no surprise it comes from a programmer, you are aren't you?
I know many engine programmers still use DOS as their main development platform
for reasons you pointed out. Also all my analysis tools are DOS based, moving
exclusive to the Windows platform I would lose all of them.

The last months I have moved the thing to 3 interfaces 1) my own private
DOS-text-based interface, DOS Crafty alike for development purposes 2) the
graphical downloadable DOS version and 3) the Lokasoft interface.

So contrary to Harald's judgement I am ready for the future :)

Ed



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