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Hello Bill - 

>> Hello Bill, been awhile. You're right, it was a bit on the
>> mean side. 

BB> OK, Charles. I didn't take umbrage. Been retired too long
BB> for that. 

Good. :-) 

BB> A bit of controversy does wonders for increasing lurker
BB> participation, and it's been a bit dry (not to say dead) of
BB> late. 

I've not been inspired to write anything in 'C' or any other
language for quite some time now. I don't even have my 'C'
compiler installed onto this machine yet. 

BB> I haven't bothered to learn Celerion assembler. It's not
BB> sufficiently different, and other matters tend to press in
BB> on the available time. 

BB> When I was working I had a fairly easy time. Now I am
BB> rushed off my feet and get much less done, but it's all
BB> enjoyable. I think it's the cocoon around you when you are
BB> working that narrows your focus. 

Yes, inertia is a bugger. :-) 

BB> It is interesting that the programs that stopped working on
BB> Win ME now work again on Windows XP, so Windows is not one
BB> OS but many. I think I prefer backwards compatibility, but
BB> I'm open to persuasion, if I can be convinced of increased
BB> utility (which I doubt). 

Seems to me that Microsoft tried to re-invent Windows starting
with ME and has been wallowing in disappointments from that
time to this. XP is OK (sort of) but the hardware requirements
and inefficient use of processing power is discouraging to me. 

I read rumors that NTFS is going to be dumped but in favor of
what I do not read. I also read Microsoft is testing a mini-OS
standalone to replace the 'recovery console' used for OS that
use NTFS. Either , if successful, would be a welcomed addition. 

I've mainly been doing music files here and watching time go by. 

http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/dos/samples.asp 

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