"You Won't Believe Who Wins"

[Sridhar Ayengar]

David Greelish wrote:
>> I have a 2GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 with 1GB RAM that gets booted into MS-DOS
>> 7.1 at least twice a week.  Anyone care to guess the boot time on that?
> 
> The only thing is, in DOS, it won't function as a true GUI with true GUI 
> apps, so the comparison is moot. How about GeoWorks Ensemble? How about 
> Windows XP on a system with no additional "stuff" loaded, like 
> anti-virus, etc. It's an interesting article, but just how optimized was 
> this system for just office apps. Obviously the Mac Plus didn't go 
> online, etc., but I get the point, it was a standard system then, 
> compared to a standard system now. Where's the productivity advantage?

I don't know, the machine runs WYSIWYG Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS 3.1 like a 
champ.  On the rare occurrence (I think I may have done it once -- just 
to show I could do it) that I've needed to open a word processor on the 
DOS boot on this machine, WordPerfect 6.0 worked like a champ, and my 
output from it would have been identical (or close to it) to my output 
with Microsoft Word or Lotus Word Pro.  And anyway, it doesn't take long 
to bring up Windows 3.1, and it really, really wouldn't take long if I 
added "win" to the end of my autoexec.bat file.

Peace...  Sridhar