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   Louis Ohland to ex-ibm-mca-user   
   Obsolescence   
   30 Jan 24 07:56:03   
   
   From: ohland@charter.net   
      
   As long as one does not have to use and abuse the current releases of   
   apps that supposedly increase office productivity, then MCA does quite   
   well. WfW 3.11, the last great OS, crash it so hard it bounces, boot   
   with a floppy that has Edit on it, fix WIN.INI, and you are up again.   
      
   Yes, WfW runs on top of DOS... don't be CPT Obvious...   
      
   I foundt NT 4.0 SP6a to be dependable, but not as flexible as Win98SE.   
      
   Ever notice that RTF documents from the early daze can be opened with a   
   current app, but try opening a *.DOC from the early days. Word 2.0? Then   
   Word 6.0, 97, 2003, usw... It is a worthy goal to switch to RTF in order   
   to help future users...   
      
   ex-ibm-mca-user wrote:   
   > Very unluckily the MCA-stuff cannot be used on the internet any more   
   > because the installable NT 4.6 doesn't provide a basis any more for the   
   > contemporary browsers!!!   
   > He who just wants to use relatively old office-software (up to 2k; but   
   > without DOCX etc) can use MCA & NT4.6 & old printers (e.g. LJ4 & LJ5).   
   > For regular internet-use, the MCA with winNT4 is nowadays useless   
   > because the there (NT4.x) usable browsers are unable to display all of   
   > today's things!!! (The development of HTML proceeds  s i l e n t l y, no   
   > one informs you about this! The development proceeds in absolute   
   > secrecy!!!!!)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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