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conversion & stuff
I've been following the fascinating thread comparing the GS to
MS-DOS machines.
To clear up matters a little, I have a IIE converted to a ROM 1
GS & believe
me, they ripped out the entire motherboard for the conversion.
I also have a 40
meg internal VULCAN HD and just got a 4 meg sequential system
RAM card.
It does everything I need a home computer for. The text based
screens of
Proterm, AppleWorks and AppleWriter are lightning fast & I'm
NOT using an
accelerator. Proterm at 14.4 burns up the screen, text scrolls
by faster than
on any machine that has to draw the letters.
It crunches my taxes, turns out fine DTP on an Imagewriter with
Pointless & if
I want to upgrade to a laser printer, I can do so cheaply and
easily.
Most GS programs are CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP, usually in the two
digit price range.
MS-DOS & MAC equivelents usually run in the three digit pricing
zone.
Sure Macs are nice, and someday I'll own one side by side with
my GS. I'm old
enough to remember C/PM and as far as I'm concerned, the major
failing of
MS-DOS machines is that the operating system is based on that
convoluted,
unfriendly, awkward language. Windows is just a shell over it,
kind of like
putting a pretty front on a building being held together with
tacks and string.
I don't know anybody who hasn't had MS-DOS fail on them at some
point or
another, so you can't tell me it's any more reliable than any
other system.
Once you get on the treadmill of keeping up with the latest
hardware (286, 386,
486 etc....) you'll never get off. Planned obsolescence is part
and parcel of
MS-DOS software. WordPerfect 6 files are totally unintelligible
to owners of
the previous versions. Same goes for most other programs for
the machine.
Downward compatibilty is something they don't want to hear at
Microsoft board
meetings, that's for sure.
I'll stick with my forgotten machine and do very nicely, thanks.
Ron