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Posted by Derek Cornish
Mar 8, 2008 at 08:29 PM
Cassius wrote:
>1) I, too, still use GV
>for some things on Win XP. Derek, what settings (PIF, etc.) or supplementary software
>do you use to make GV as friendly as possible on XP? —Maybe I should start another topic
>on this as a number of us still use GV.
>
>2) I have the same feeling about the Mac, but my
>current laptop is only 15 months old. Another incentive: From what I’ve read, Vista is
>an abomination. The main drawback to switching is moving all info/documents from Win
>software to Mac Software. Anyone have a “magic” solution?
>
>3) Derek, all that great
>DOS software? Either you must be almost as old as I or you were a boy prodigy.
>
>4) I
>do/did a lot of math/stat work, so rtf is/was important. (In GV, I used HP printer codes
>to create math equations.)
>
1. I’ve put my pif settings on the new thread.
2. I’d be interested in that. The great thing these days is that one can run favourite Windows programs on the MAC. Zoot, in my case. Not sure how DOS programs would fare, though…
3. Probably the former :-). But I was cursed - Buggins’s turn - with being Department representative on I.T. matters for many years at my university, so got hooked relatively early via BBC Acorn computers, Zenith luggables, etc. But it wasn’t until the mid-90s that I had a really decent toolbox of DOS programs. By that time the real whizkids had migrated to OS/2 and Windows.
4. I was never as adept at getting the most out of GV as you were. I still have your key customizations.
Derek
Posted by Derek Cornish
Mar 8, 2008 at 08:34 PM
Thanks for mentioning this. I’d forgotten that he had a blog. Information overload I guess. I think he is running Zoot via VIMWare on his new MACs, too.
Derek
Posted by Derek Cornish
Mar 8, 2008 at 09:18 PM
Derek Cornish wrote:
>Thanks for mentioning this. I’d forgotten that he had a blog. Information overload I
>guess. I think he is running Zoot via VIMWare on his new MACs, too.
>
>Derek
Whoops! Forgot to mention that this was in response to:
>>Posted by MsJulie
>>Mar 8, 2008 at 12:16 AM
>>James Fallows covers the new release in his blog:
>>http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/03/new_version_of_zoot_goes_up.php
Posted by Derek Cornish
Mar 8, 2008 at 09:26 PM
Cassius wrote:
>
>
>Tom S. wrote: FWIW I got a new laptop 6 months ago and I haven’t had a single problem
>with Vista. Of course, I must admit I spend 95% of my time in MS programs. If it didn’t
>work with Outlook, the MS would indeed have a problem. :)
>>
>>Bottom line, I wouldn’t
>get too excited about what I read about it. As you probably know, the presentation of
>the facts often gets colored by the point of view. It’s unavoidable in even the most
>neutral of newspaper reports. And my experience is that views about OSs are more like
>religion. Opinions are never really
>neutral.
>====================
>
>Unfortunately, I only use one MS program-Word
>2000-for the book I’m writing. Everything else is non-MS. Of course, a switch to the
>MAC means either abandoning all my info in Windows programs, manually transferring
>it, or running Windows on a Mac. It probably isn’t rational to make the switch. But I do
>HATE the registry and many programs apparently will not be rewritten for Vista. In
>particular, GoBack. GoBack has saved my behind many times, but Symantec now owns it
>and has decided not to update it for Vista, just as happened with GV.
>
>-c
Of course the REAL reason for switching to the MAC is the allure of a further major of round of CRIMPING…
Derek
Posted by David Dunham
Mar 9, 2008 at 12:21 AM
Derek Cornish wrote:
>Of course the REAL reason for switching to the MAC is the
>allure of a further major of round of CRIMPING…
Music to my ears :-)
BTW, Opal will read Dyno Notepad for Windows outlines. (Not that many people bought the Windows version of Dyno Notepad.) I have no plans to create a Windows version of Opal.