BW>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.
Sure, if the feature YOU use is the one that is giving you problems,
it's bad for you...
BW>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.
Disagree highly there.  Working in a graphical (dos or windows) is very
nice.  I could not go back to the plain text now after using the the
graphical interface.  But like everything else, it is a matter of
personal opinion.
BW>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.)
My lord, with my new pentium computer, my OLX for dos is running so
fast!  I can't get over it.  I guess over time you take it for granted
and then it seems slow...  then, time for a new computer.
BW>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.
I sang the same song back in Nov. but I can honestly say that I am very
glad I got a new computer.  The only program that didn't work was wp6.1
for dos.  Now I have wp8 and everything's just peachy.
BW>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.
You can only fight it for so long and then you will have to cave in...
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