-=> Quoting Bob Klahn to Nancy Backus on 10-21-04  19:27 <=-

 NB> I imagine that I will be essentially DOS only for quite a
 NB> while yet... as long as my resident wizard can keep writing
 NB> fixes for things so that I can still work in DOS.  We do

 BK> Have your resident wizard put his fixes on a website, so those
 BK> of us who still have some dos machines around can get them.

Mark Lewis offered to put the TCPPort fix (TelNetPort v 0.1, file name
TNPORT01.zip) up on the web for us via his bbs, so I uploaded that to
him, verifying in the process that the fix also works for RA boards... ;)
I'm not sure if he has any other real fixes yet, but he'll probably put
them up once they've had at least a little testing to make sure that
they really are fixes and not just new buglets... 

 NB> have Win95 on this machine, but it boots directly into DOS,
 NB> and if for the occasional thing windows is needed for
 NB> something graphical, we can start it up just for that and
 NB> then go back to DOS when done.  Even then, it's usually
 NB> keys rather than point-and- click, whenever possible.  :)

 BK> I hung onto my dos machine for a long time, but when I upgraded
 BK> it was straight to Win XP, in a Dell 1.6 gig. Only did it for
 BK> video work.

We went from a 286 straight to a pentium, a couple years after the
pentiums came out... and I'm still using that 'puter... :)  No upgrades
on the horizon, but then, none are really needed for what I'm doing. :)

 BK> My personal programming is still in dos, bat files and
 BK> quickbasic. Where I work we still have my old quick basic
 BK> storeroom program running, on our Win 2K equipped Dells.

Hubby can program/function in Windows, but prefers not to.  He's also
used Unix systems at work, and brought back a number of unix commands to
add to the dos commands on this (and also on his) computer.  And has
written, or re-written, some of the programs behind the commands to make
them work better, over the years.

 BK> Though I have been thinking of Linux for a long time. I just
 BK> don't want to bother learning anything new.
 
One of our friends has been playing with Linux... I'm happy enough in
dos, and wouldn't be the one to install anything different anyway, but I
could probably handle the new "magic spells" if the wizard decided to go
that way...  maybe when dos dies, if we should live that long, and still
be working on the computer then... :)

 NB> ... DOS = venerable;  Win95 = vulnerable

 BK> I like it.

So did I when I snagged it... 

ttyl       neb

... Program call to load Windows: "Here_piggy_piggy_piggy!"

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