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From: ZL1UIC@ZL1UX.#20.NZL.OC
To : DOS@WW
I don't want to devalue your opinion, but I feel I need to make a comment
or 3;
> Since 1995 Microsoft has been trying to phase out DOS. With Windows ME >and
XP trying to run DOS
programs are hard if not impossible. So this >leads me to ask why to
software authors that design Ham software still >write ham utilities in
DOS or the ones in Windows are so basic that they >are worthless. Amateur
Radio operators are supposed to be on the cutting >edge of technolgy but
it would seem alot of ham choose to stay in the >past.
A case again of forcing the consumer into usng or upgrading systems to
limit the freedom of choice. Consumerism in the guise of progress.
Nothin wrong with dos.
I still play with dos (albeit MS) 5 & 6.2.Good to keep the hand in & the
brain alie. Plug & play, click-click doesn't cut the mustard when it mucks
it's nappies. sure it is easy, but what is the learning? you become more
dependent on those forcing limited operator participation all the time.
Duh!!
Many good programs in DOS even for packet. Personal experience- TPK is a
little ripper, as many users will attest.
The MuckyShaft M.O sdems to be Change it often to keep the punters (&
developers) on the back foot. Some manage to stay with it (G4IDE is a good
example) with the W*nd*ze progression, bit with an XP unit inside it is a
P.I.T.A on some things. But it is also more intent on tracking all my
moves. The W98se on this beast is a bit of a worry but so was 95a (from 30
floppies! a term &1/2 to load, & no IE to get AGW working - been there,
done that, hated the T-shirt)
As you may have gathered, I despise corporate greed.
> I for one would like to see a new crop of ham software, (Packet, morse >code,
loggers, UTC clocks,
etc..) that take advantage of the
>features the new high end operating systems provide.
>
> Just one mans opinion,
> Jamie R. Dean - W4JRD
If they can keep up with the development of their products to match the
OS they operate under.
Just because it is older technology, it doesn't mean it is of no further
use.
73 de Allen, ZL1UIC @ ZL1UX
Cambridge, N.Z., RF72RC
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