<I ran much of my software from DOS basic for a long while after Windows appeared. Windows is simply a slowing, memory consuming irritant.

yeagh I always considered it a clown suit for dos. I built my own menu system out of batch files then.

I held out as long as I could. I rememberI was using dos even when Warcraft2 was out which was. . . . I forget. . .funny how I remember computer time as which game I was addicted to then. . .

However, once the software manufacturers pandered to microsoft - and made stuff that couldn't be started in DOS,

even then I held out, there were usually some library files you could get to run it in dos. . . at least for a while.

the end of the computer owner as a programmer was in sight. Now the computer owner is a mindless mouse clicker who drifts in a world he can't control.



10 Poke 16134, 12543
15 A=0
20 If A>100 then goto 30
25 A=A+1
30 ?"microsoft stinks"
40 goto 20

Yep... Basic how I miss ya!



I hear ya, and I was near a mindless compared to what I learned after switching to linux. Funny thing is I switched to linux becasue of the headache programming in microsofts visual C++ environment was.

I was bourne(sic) for this type of environment!
-Justin Kelly