Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 18:04:00 -0500 (EST) From: "Paul O. Bartlett" To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: multitasking? In-Reply-To: <20011029.13551@olim.1.43> Message-ID: X-No-Archive: Yes X-PGP-key: ftp://ftp.smart.net/pub/bartlett/pgpkey X-PGP-keyid: F383C8F9 X-PGP-key-fingerprint: E62D2E2C7BCD08CB B742A93726A91532 Organization: SmartNet Private Account MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Alex Venn wrote (excerpt): > but the real problem is that it > stopped development some years ago. Sadly, this seems to be true for nearly everything in the DOS world. If I don't want to be trapped in the Windoozy world, I might have to bite the bullet and try to go with Linux. Unfortunately, I know next to nothing about Linux administration and would probably do well in addition by installing a second HDD (I am no hardware monkey), so Linux seems to be a bit of a daunting task. I briefly looked at BeOS, as it provides a (mostly) Posix-compliant shell with most of the customary *nix-style utilities, but development there also seems to be almost on the rocks. Mac is out, as I am not in the market for a new system. Is there no alternative to Windoozy for some of poor non-geek saps? -- Paul Bartlett bartlett AT smart DOT net PGP key info in message headers