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[Day Brown <daybrown AT hypertech.net>]

"Krzysztof A. Suchecki" wrote:

> > People will be *driven* back to the CLI just to reduce the clutter.
>
> IMHO rather no, because hardware becomes more and more powerful and even
> on old Celereon 400 from 1999 and 128MB RAM I can use GUI with enough speed.
>

Oh certainly. But what do the servers *do* with that speed? send you flashy 
glitz,
banner & popup spam. The bottleneck is not the motherboard/os, but the 56k 
modem.
If the 56k modem didnt waste time downloading the artwork you dont care 
about, the
interface would run a *lot* faster. One way people do this is by surfing in 
text
mode. But if you are going to *do* that, you might just as well be running the
interface in ANSI color graphics. To be sure that mode is limited, but that's 
the
whole point, it can render the sliders, buttons, & webnames you wanna click 
on,
but it cant waste time on wall paper.

>
> > DW.EXE
> Have you tried Dos Navigator?

Never heard of it before. Just downloaded. I'll see.... kinda surprised to see
such an extensive ongoing dos project.

>
>
> > With drives the size they now are, there is plenty of room for both dos
> > and BL on the same desktop. We dont havta vote for which is best, but use
> > whichever works at the time to do what we need.
>
> Exactly. None is best. I use FreeDOS i.e. for TeX documents as emTeX is 
> smaller
> than teTeX; and Linux for some other tasks - especially network oriented:)
>
> Chris
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