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Subject: Re: Will Someone Please Explain Why So Many People Hate Dos Chess Programs?

Author: John Coffey

Date: 14:12:20 01/15/99

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On January 15, 1999 at 17:05:26, odell hall wrote:

>Hi CCC
>
>
>  At the Risk of being labeled as an Imbecile, could someone explain this
>extreme hatred for Dos Chess Programs! This is one of those questions That for a
>long time I wanted to ask but was afraid to. Personally having purchased my
>first program in dos (rebel6)I am more comfortable with dos programs. I hope
>rebel never goes to windows. What are the advantages and disadvantages of
>windows chess programs over Dos? At the moment I only own one windows chess
>program (CM4000) and personally I don't see anything special about it, in fact I
>would perfer Rebel in Dos over CM4000 in windows one million times!!


Well I guess it depends upon what you are used to.  Most windows programs
behave in a very consistant way ... except maybe for Fritz 5 ;-) .... so
it is easy to learn how to use them.  With Rebel it is not immediately obvious
to me how to do some things, as it is with most windows programs.

I don't think that anybody hates DOS programs.  It is just that like me they
prefer the better quality interface that can be found on windows programs.

John Coffey



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