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On Thu, 29 Jan 1998 08:48:48 -0700 (MST), HILSENG@enr.gov.ab.ca wrote: >Date: 01/29/1998 08:40 am (Thursday) >From: Grant Hilsenteger >To: energy.smtpgw."thinkpad@cs.utk.edu" >Subject: Re: 701C Modem: Doesn't work in DOS? -Reply > ><snip> > > >> I've told her to tell her software supplier to get with the times and >> develop a Win95 version of their software and make it a lot more >compatible >Haa, I'd rather have a DOS program then a Win95 one. > >Yah, but for people who only use the computer as a *tool* in their >business and don't care about the OS Except for the people I know. THey wouldn't put a Microsoft OS on their computers if they were paid to. so much, it would be nice to have a >consistent standard since they don't have the time to be worrying about >whether it runs in DOS or Windows. That is, since most of the world (like >it or not) is using some form of Windows, most business people have >gotten used to the GUI interface. That's not neccesarily true, there are *many* businesses that run on OS/2, Linux, <yuck> the Mac OS, etc. It's not completely a Windows world. If computer programs evolved the way >that hardware has, then most programs would be very "black-box" and >people would not have to worry as much. Developing a program that >doesn't work this way is just added confusion when the update would >not be too difficult to program. > How about just create these kind of applications in JAVA so they work under MANY different OSes? Just my 2 cents for today. -- Paul =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Paul Khoury pkhoury@loop.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Running OS/2 2.1 on my PS/2 55SX Running OS/2 Warp 3 on my "DX2-50" Running OS/2 Warp 4 on my server and ThinkPad 701CS Donate your idle CPU time to a needy cause. Join Team Warped and help to crack RC5-64! Check out http://www.ionet.net/~colin/rc5.html for more information. The Operating System/2 Version is 4.00 Revision 9.029 There are 22 Processes with 84 Threads. This machine's uptime is 0d 0h 23m 49s 359ms.