Hi,

 > Yes, it was quite powerful.  Its biggest problem was
 > that it was really too ambitious for DOS --

    Agreed.

 > it was simply too big and too slow with the machines
 > available at the time.

   A forerunner of things to come. It now takes 160 KB at 2 GHz to run what
was a 40 byte program on a 2Mhz Z80. Execution time is about the same.

 > OTOH, a machine that's even
 > pretty out of date now runs it _quite_ nicely. 

    I don't use it any more either, Jerry.

    I just wanted to mention it as an example that not everything native to
Microsoft is crap.

Best Wishes,
Bill.

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