operating systems

From: PG Manney <manney_at_nwohio.com>
Date: Fri Jan 2 18:45:25 1998

> Right. And if you ran MS Works 2.0 for DOS on an XT, which was
unfortunately
> what had to be done for a while with me, it would show characters maybe a
> second after they are type, especially on a Leading Edge Model D, which
was
> first priority to replace among the 8 XTs that were slowly being phased
out.

I've used MSW on XT's (even a PC), and I don't remember its being all that
slow. What were you doing? Editing War & Peace?

> MS-DOS edit or Windows Write works very much faster. (Don't get me wrong
here,
> I love the Leading Edge Model D, it's just so damn slow)

I think they're pretty quick (faster than the IBM XT, anyway!)
Received on Fri Jan 02 1998 - 18:45:25 GMT

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