Hi, Michaels!
   For the Michael Harris at The Big "D" BBS * Kansas City, Ks * 
(913)299-3606 
(1:280/398), who said:
 MH>some bozo, tryed to used my account, so don't leave me any more 
messages... 
  
   Hard as it may seem to believe, there are two people who are called 
"Michael Harris" reading this echo, and you are each going to get the other's 
mail.  This echo is on a network that spans the entire planet, you know, and 
no one has exclusive rights to a name.  There are no "accounts" once your 
messages leave the bulletin board system on which they originate.
   For the Michael Harris at The Clovis Connection (209)-323-7583  
(1:205/500.0), who said:
 MH> We are currently using Pdox 3.5 for DOS, and I am learning PDOX 4.5 for
 MH> DOS.
 MH> Unfortunately, my boss has an aversion to windows.  Why I do not know.
   Well, some of his reasons could be that:
 - the DOS version is MUCH faster;
 - the learning curve to go into the programming side of the DOS version is a 
very gentle slope, as compared with several weeks of training and study to 
use ObjectPAL.  (I know.  I'm trying to learn ObjectPal myself now.)
 - you need faster computers with more memory and disk space to run Windows 
software well.  That's true for any graphics-based program--look at how much 
bigger Paradox for DOS 4.0 or 4.5 is than version 3.5.  Most of that is just 
to get pretty windows and that cute mouse to work.  Look at the code required 
to be added to a PAL application to find out if the mouse is in or out of the 
window, whether anyone is pressing a button, all that "event" trapping stuff 
we never had to notice before.  It all takes up memory and disk space.  Then 
you need a better memory manager, a built-in disk cache, and who knows what 
else?  Like the Model T Ford, the old software was simpler.  On the other 
hand, it did less.
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