Re: Large screen monitor

[booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Windows NT (or Windows 2000 as we like to call it now... oops.. Windows 
Professional.. whatever) is not the answer to the prayers if the brand new 
workstation on the desk next to mine is any indication.  The installations 
of the new software are taking forever and the users do not like the 
interface nor the security.  It doesn't crash, but then neither did 
Windows 98.   Why IBM has allowed themselves to be backed into a corner 
where every AS/400 sale sells some more Microsoft product is beyond me, 
but hey, I'm not Lou.

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Booth Martin
Booth@MartinVT.com
http://www.MartinVT.com
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Chuck Lundgren <lundgren@iris-software.com>
Sent by: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
07/28/2000 02:25 PM
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At 09:15 AM 7/28/00 +0100, you wrote:
>I have in fact used it briefly but not in my installation.  No I am more
>thorough,  but I do have a prejudice against Windows born out of having 
to 
>reboot
>my PC several times most days for many years.  When I change to a brand 
>new PC, I
>still have to reboot. I am not alone.  So I only use PC's when I have to.

Stop using Win 95 or 98 and use NT or NT Workstation for cat's sakes. I 
have to reboot my NT box, maybe, once every two weeks, and this is a 
development machine, which tends to make it more unstable. And the reason 
I 
usually have to reboot is to install new software.

>I tihnk that IBM is just trying to be modern and politcally correct in 
the 
>use of
>PCs for many tasks for which they have no obvious benefits.

If you haven't used a PC editor for any length of time, I can't imagine 
how 
you can rate whether they have any obvious benefits. Have you tried ASNA's 

Visual RPG? Have you used CODE/400 for a period longer than a couple of 
hours? FlexEdit? MultiEdit? Visual Studio?

The rest of the programing world moved on at *least* five or six years 
ago. 
Why use an old claw hammer when you can work with an air nailer?

  ... Chuck

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