WC> For me there's still a place for DOS and it may remain so
 WC> for some time to come until I'm really quite familiar with
 WC> Linux which has great stability and wide scope.

 CA> No need to worry. I'm just having some fun with Dave. He loves
 CA> to prod me about using legacy hardware and software and I enjoy
 CA> watching him try to justify what cannot be justified.

I very much appreciate information gleaned from both of you
and never saw your ongoing dispute as serious.
Though seriously there IS more money to be made in Windows
if you're an administrator because it has majority market share
and as it breaks a lot you've job security.
Also I hear a new worm took down 22,000 Windows servers
yesterday, more overtime for administrators installing the patch
they should have installed months ago ;-)

When I screwed up yesterday overwritting the DOS FAT
my three Linux partitions were unaffected.
Everything is back now except I need to snag the 
Multimail reader for Linux, already got ATP.
Have you heard of Abiword (word processor) and the Linux
(Dillo) browser? Dillo's binary runs 200K and looking at screen shots
from the web page is *very* impressive. This is very much
a graphical browswer however I've no idea what it need by way
of support. Oh yeah only eats under 900K of RAM running!

 CA> In the foreseeable future we will all keep a Windows install
 CA> handy for compatibility until such time as the majority of the
 CA> installed base of users is using some other OS. At that time we
 CA> will keep that OS 'handy'.

 Wish I'd had a copy of my FAT for recovery yesterday.
 Still only a few hours to restore most everything.
 Lost some of my scantilly clad, nude, brunette  JPG's however :-(
 Gotta drop that newsgroup too because there a lot of _lolita_
 crap being dropped in there as well as some very determined
 spammers with an AI program generating random text messages
 and spamming the newsgroup.

 CA> As long as we need a Windows install we will need DOS to
 CA> maintain it.

 And fortunately I'd backed that up to tape in November of last year.

 CA> I don't sell this stuff and really don't care what OS dominates
 CA> the existing installed user base. I would've voted for OS9
 CA> myself but Microware got greedy after their license to Radio
 CA> Shack ran out and upped the price to $700 US. From Radio Shack
 CA> it was $99. Big jump. :-\

I don't care what O.S. anyone runs either but it's looking very much
like Linux has snagged me, I like the power, I like the price and
I lile the powerful freeware apps and Microsoft "Word"
compatible word processors available!
 
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