From: "pbunn" 
To: "Bob May" , "atmlist"

Reply-To: "pbunn" 


All of my DOS Printed Circuit layout programs won't work on XP with the DOS
mode . It is more stable than Win98 or ME . I find ME to be total junk.

Pat Bunn



----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob May" 
To: "atmlist" 
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 12:59 PM Subject: Re: ATM converting to MS XP OS


>
> One thing that I've heard about XP is that you can't boot to DOS anymore.
> This tends to make things difficult when you have serious problems with
> things.  The DOS session is still available but you have to do some
> twiddling with the OS to get it to talk to anything like the printer or
> other such things when in that DOS session.
> In additon, you will have to register the OS with microcrud in order to
keep
> it working.
> Lastly, from what I've seen of the OS when working with others computers,
> there is way too much space taken up on the screen for the "cuteness"
factor
> for my preference.
> Personally, I'd stay away from XP.
> Bob May
> http://nav.to/bobmay
> bobmay{at}nethere.com
> NEW! http://bobmay.astronomy.net
>
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