To: John Tserkezis

 BL> It's the same problem, actually. Tossing, duping and all that
 BL> should take the longest time, so you can hide the archiving on
 BL> the end.

 JT> Since I've cut down on my mail base, I only keep a full message
 JT> base on a few echos, and only keep the last month on all the
 JT> others, I've cut my nightly event from 20+ minutes to about 6
 JT> minutes. The archiving bit actually takes a bit of time though,
 JT> I *could* cheat, and not have all my mail packed like it is
 JT> now, but then I would end up with a million files in my
 JT> outbound instead of 10 average.

  You're missing the point of what I'm saying. When you *use* a
computer program you interact with the interface. If you have to wait,
it's annoying, so the trick is to hide the stuff that takes a long
time either with other stuff that *unavoidably* takes a long time, or
put it where there is no interaction. If a computer has to process big
things, then it should do so unattended.

 JT> Fuck windows. Any of my apps that NEED windows will get trashed
 JT> now. I wash my hands of it all. I'm not going to let that gates
 JT> character decide what is best for me.

  Good luck with 1% of the market...

 JT> Yeah, it's going to take me a while to move everything over,
 JT> and learing c++ might take most of my time, but at least I'll
 JT> confuse myself in style. :-) 

  You have to learn C++ anyway, and I have, but I can't see any point
in OS/2 or Unix. If Windows is ever replaced, it won't be with
something similar, just as Windows was nothing like DOS, and IMO it
will be hardware driven. Windows was not possible on an XT, NT is not
possible on anything but a Pentium... the next generation of computer
hardware will create its own software, probably owned by M$ or IBM.

Regards,
Bob
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