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Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 17:27:42
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From: Ralph Proctor <ralphgpr AT shadow DOT net>
Subject: Re: DJGPP: the future is... ?
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At 03:35 PM 4/7/99, you wrote:

>>You'll just have to get used to this.  .............
>>     Bernard
>>-- 
>>Bernard P. Murray, PhD
>>Dept. Cell. Mol. Pharmacol., UCSF, San Francisco, USA

You have really got me thinking. We are just going to have to have
more than one computer in the future--or else more than one drive
or partition. There is just no other way.

For example: I have WordPerfect 6 for Windows which works with
Windows 3.xx It's very good. I like it. I don't want to change.
But when I get my super dooper advanced computer with
Microsoft NT 2001 or whatever it won't let me use that--maybe.
And so it goes.

I also like IBM DOS 7.0 until I get a free DOS that is better--
and then there is Linux which I MUST HAVE. And to use any of the
new software and simulators and things for grandchildren to work
on I'll have to have the MS sooper dooper. I just don't see how all this
can be done on one computer and the user maintain some sanity.

As a matter of fact, when you throw in music synthesizers--MIDI
and such--you might have to have THREE computers. MS is sure
not attempting to make it any easier for us.

To try to make this comply with the "on-topic" rule, may I say that
the DJGPP programmers might be better off not attempted to
integrate so closely with the MS world and make a world of their
own.

Ralph
Waiting for the underlying window