2 Jun
2007
2 Jun
'07
9:29 p.m.
David Greelish wrote:
I don't know, the machine runs WYSIWYG Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS 3.1 like a
champ. On the rare occurrence (I think I may have done it once -- just
to show I could do it) that I've needed to open a word processor on the
DOS boot on this machine, WordPerfect 6.0 worked like a champ, and my
output from it would have been identical (or close to it) to my output
with Microsoft Word or Lotus Word Pro. And anyway, it doesn't take long
to bring up Windows 3.1, and it really, really wouldn't take long if I
added "win" to the end of my autoexec.bat file.
Peace... Sridhar
I have a 2GHz
AMD Athlon 64 X2 with 1GB RAM that gets booted into MS-DOS
7.1 at least twice a week. Anyone care to guess the boot time on that?
The only thing is, in DOS, it won't function as a true GUI with true GUI
apps, so the comparison is moot. How about GeoWorks Ensemble? How about
Windows XP on a system with no additional "stuff" loaded, like
anti-virus, etc. It's an interesting article, but just how optimized was
this system for just office apps. Obviously the Mac Plus didn't go
online, etc., but I get the point, it was a standard system then,
compared to a standard system now. Where's the productivity advantage?