Rudy

I'd change to Linux like a shot ... if only I could get it to work :-(

Seriously, the problem there is the paucity of drivers and software. OK
for nerds who know how to programme these and have the time to fart
around. There is, for example, very little choice available in the CAD
field. There is Vutrax available as a professional system for
electronics CAD with a decent router, but not much else that I know of,
other than some home systems. There isn't even a manufacturer's driver
for any of my 3 printers or scanner or digicam or DV camcorder or a
decent video editing package. Life is so sad.

Actually DOS 6.2 was a good OS once you came to terms with it. It's
these bloody bloatware Windows thingummies that cause us all the trash.
The trouble is that the market was driven by the public who were unable
to click onto a DOS menu item but had to have a pretty screen.

Brian

"" wrote:
>
> We held out, and probably were the last company with a network to switch to
> Weindoz, but finally was forced to do it by the Y2K non-issue.
>
> We had more support issues, and system failures in the first 3 months using
> Weindoz than we had in the previous 10 years on the old DOS system.
>
> The good news is this is a "metastable" situation.  (I had the term
> "metastable" explained to me by being told to imagine a pyramid balancing on
> its point.)  Everybody knows all of this, and there are people right now
> spending their professional careers trying to give us non-Microswill
> choices....so this WILL change.
>
> Slowly, it wll get right, the economic "pressure" is to great....
> Unfortunately it will be WAY too slowly for most of us.
>
> Rudy Sedlak
>
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