RS> Well, like I said, I am not a power user so the bugs you uncovered
 RS> were probably for esoteric things that I would not have used.
I'll admit that might describe the last one, but it involved a form
I used all the time, so it was a big problem for me.
 RS> Jeez, the text screen looks so primitive next to the graphical screen
 RS> of 6.0 to 6.1!  It was as good as windows without the crashing of the
 RS> computer!  You really got to see what you were doing with those
 RS> versions.
All I'm generally concerned about is the bare text; and it's easier
to work with than the WYSIWYG graphics.  I only do a significant
amount of switching to a graphics view when I'm designing a table
form.
 RS> Well, until last month, I felt the same way.  I was determined not to
 RS> upgrade till I needed a new computer.  Although it did everything I
 RS> wanted it to do, it did it a little slower than I would have wanted.
That was my real incentive to move up from an "XT" AT&T 6300.  The
unarchiving and handling mail packets was just too slow, even with a
SOTA 386sx processor card and IDE hard drive, everything still being
processed through the 8-bit data bus.  (In fact, the SOTA was both a
gain and a loss, the original 8086 having full access to and using
the proprietary 16-bit data bus but just not having the horsepower
to do things I wanted to do, such as running multiple DV windows.)
 RS> So, I spent the $800 and got a new computer (without the monitor or
 RS> printer which I already had) and never looked back.  It really makes a
 RS> world of difference.  Even my wife who uses the computer just for
 RS> e-mail and word processing found it to be a big improvement!
What I've got now, which I assembled from mostly used (and new but
"obsolete" at closeout prices) parts, is a 66 mHz VLB 486DX; and I
don't feel any real need for a Pentium or Windows 95, either or both
of which may be required by current software.  No compatability with
Win 3.1 means "no sale" as far as I'm concerned.
In the same vein, I've got a perfectly good usable 286 laptop-size
portable which I'd anticipated using with AOL away from home, only
to discover there's no currently-available version of its software
that'll run with anything less than a 386.  Apparently its newest
version will run with Win 3.1 and a 486 but requires 16 megs of RAM
... and, as a matter of principle, I don't like the idea of being
forced to add 8 megs to a system with 8 megs that's fine for other
things for which it's used just to be able to use the AOL software.
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