On Nov 05, 1996 08:01am, BRUCE WILSON wrote to CAROLE CAPUANO:
BW> On 4 Nov 96 09:24am, CAROLE CAPUANO wrote to BRUCE WILSON:
CC>> If you say so, but not being able to reconcile the credit card
CC>> accounts in the DOS version is not, in my opinion, efficient.
BW> With that, I agree; and I don't know why Intuit chose to only let
BW> one reconcile bank accounts. However, other aspects of operation
BW> are far more effecient with DOS than Windows. It took me less than
BW> 3 seconds to zoom this DV window (two others already being open) and
BW> bring Quicken 8 for DOS up in a fourth one; and takes a fraction of
BW> a second to switch between DV windows.
I can say the same for the multitasking in /NT. I usually have 4-5 windows
open, 23 tasks running in the background and cpu is only using 7%.
CC>> And with Intuit not producing the DOS version for future
CC>> releases, you're going to be using an old version for a long
CC>> time.
BW> Yep. It does the job, as do WordPerfect 5.1+ for DOS and Telix for
BW> DOS, among others.
I use to use them all, there's only a couple of DOS programs still on my
shelves, and they'll be there as a remembrance of the 'ol days.
Carole
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