Re: V5R4 End of Marketing

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh let's have a 40-column screen and Paperclip on a Commodore 64 - now 
THAT'S modern computing!

And that 300 baud modem, now that was great for bulletin boards such as 
this was.

OK, ducking now!
Vern

On 5/29/2011 3:45 PM, Scott Klement wrote:
> Yeah.  MS-DOS 1.0 and Edlin.  How archaic.
>
> Imagine us working in an environment like that, where the screen is an
> 80x24 text-only screen, and everything is done with a single fixed-pitch
> font.  And imagine us having only very limited color support, 7 colors
> and they can't even appear in adjacent columns.
>
> Oh wait... no.  MS-DOS was 80x25.  And supported 16 colors.  And had no
> trouble with adjacent columns...  I must be thinking of something much
> older and more archaic.
>
> Not sure what I was thinking of, but thank goodness none of us uses it.
>
>
> On 5/29/2011 10:14 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > One can always state that nothing in any vendor's new release justifies
> > upgrading.  Then again, if everyone did so, we'd all be running DOS 1.0 on
> > our PC's and using edlin as our word processor.