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Article #90422Re: Why prolong the agony? Just get Windows 95...you'll be glad (you don't have a choice)
From: sarg... Donald Sobwick
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 00:00
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 00:00
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schi...@iglou.iglou.com (Terry Spurlock) wrote: >The above is true, given a limited number of apps. However, Wordperfect >5.1, Lotus 1-2-3, and dBase 3, all for DOS, are very fast after the person >who is using them learns the keystrokes. These are the apps that are >prevalent is business today. Many companies are using MS Windows, but >many more are still in DOS-land. (You're using a *286*?!) However, if you check newsrooms -- which are ALL heavy-duty typing factories (even if they make it all up, the reporters still gotta type it in) you'll find that the system of choice is Word for WINDOWS. In fact, it's almost impossible to not know how to use it AND be a newspaper person at the same time. Don from Dover
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From: sarg...@tribeca.ios.com (Donald Sobwick) Subject: Re: Why prolong the agony? Just get Windows 95...you'll be glad (you don't have a choice) Date: 1995/12/10 Message-ID: <4adu2p$onb@news.ios.com> X-Deja-AN: 121458426 references: <DJ7A45.Ao9@iglou.com> organization: Internet Online Services newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup,comp.multimedia,junk,comp.graphics.animation,alt.games.doom,alt.games.descent,alt.games.warcraft,comp.graphics,comp.graphics.animation,alt.fan.bill-gat MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit