Attention: Mitchell Spector

[bjblackbear@ibm.net (B.J. Major)]

Mitchell:  I hope this satisfies your insistence that today's PCs can run all
of yesterday's software.

>Paul:  I am a Mac user by choice, but I have had to contend with Wintel
>machines in the workplace since 1985.  I have had to both use them on a
>daily basis, and do troubleshooting on them.  That having been said,
>there is a *lot* of software out there, especially old 5.25 floppy disk
>programs, that will NOT run on today's Pentiums--for one reason or
>another.  Personally, I hate the architecture of those machines and I'm
>not going to interest myself in trying to figure out the whys and
>wherefores since I'm perfect content with my Macs and have no interest
>in Wintel machines.  
>
>
>--bj

I entirely agree -- one of the most disappointing things about the PC I
bought a couple of years ago was discovering that it wouldn't run a lot of
late DOS, graphics heavy games, especially some MicroProse war games I was
rather looking forward to. At least, they wouldn't run without a
mind-numbing heap of configuration work on Win 95's DOS preferences, which
had to be different for each game. Frankly, I couldn't spare the time --
unlike some people I don't really like configuring PCs. In my experience,
the backward compatibility of PCs is a crapshoot.


Steve Ballantyne