🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Aug13.234004.4569@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, chena@crs.cl.msu.edu (Antony Chen) writes...
> 
>That's not the end of it.  The new SmartDrive that comes with Windows 3.1
>SUCKS!  It gave me such a headache because I always got errors when I tried
>to download files.  The Write Cache would mess up the timings that my
>comm program had.  And it's not that my computer is too slow (I have a
>486-50).  Just turn the SmartDrv write cache off and save yerself a lot of
>headaches.  Believe me.
> 

Perhaps its your Comm program - I use SmartDrive with ProComm Plus for
Windows and have no problems at all.

>Those stupid people at Microsoft.  First, they come up with a runt OS called
>MS-DOS and keep modifying it so they can trick the consumer into thinking
>it is actually semi-efficient. (It's not efficient, you just gotta spend the 
>big bucks for a fast computer.)

So get Unix or OS/2 ... then you need a fast computer that also has
a _LOT_ of RAM and disk storage...

>  Then, they come out with the ugliest looking
>flight simulator out there (who like those graphics anyways?).

The graphics are about as good as EGA will give you. As for the panel
layout, they were probably going for realism.  (Ever been in a small
airplane?  The average small airplane instrument panel looks pretty
primitive, even with the high-tech instruments and avionics)

>Now, they
>come out with Windows. Their biggest trimuph.  Multi-tasking my butt.
>AND WHAT?!  Bill Gates is the richest executive out there.  Life can be so
>ironic.

Yes -- we can start reading a posting about SmartDrive which turns into
a flame about Microsoft, MS-Dos, MS Flight Sim, Windows, and Bill Gates.
Why don't you just buy something else and leave the rest of us alone?

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