Lpc2000

I remember them well. And I still have a dedicated DOS machine, I use it 
for my PCB design package, since I've never yet found a better one that 
runs under windows, and for quick and dirty testing, especially data 
analysis from micros. I tried doing this in Windows, but even my 
2.8Giggle Hurts running XP/Builder doesn't beat my PIV 550Meg running 
DOS/Borland C. Sure I could go Linux, but then I'd have to find a CAD 
package I liked, fork out around $10k for it and retrain my PCB maker 
and myself to use it.

The market decided, I'm alone with my CAD package, and probably close to 
alone with DOS, but when you've absolutely got to run stuff real fast 
I'd rather have DOS than win anything. I used Wordstar 4 (circa 1987) 
until 1997, when a client insisted on WORD format documents. that was 
when I bought my first windows based machine. WS did everything I needed 
from a word processor, I don't do anything more with Word for XP than I 
did with WS, except WS is only 77k long, the entire package is only 
440k, vs the 400Megs plus that Office uses. Until around 2000 my main 
machines were still DOS based. The windows machine was a curiosity used 
for clients documents only.

Al

donhamilton2002 wrote:

> Does everyone here ( at least that was programming in 1990 ) remember
> the OS wars. DOS command line vs. that new fangled Windows 3.0/3.1 and
> OS/2.
>
> Its happening all over again.
>
> Please let the market decide. Those who do not like/want any IDE can
> go build their own, and NOT give their money to the IDE writers.
>
> Please leave this argument in the past.
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