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From: cdold@starfish.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 10 Best/Worst for Computing in 1988
Message-ID: <904@starfish.Convergent.COM>
Date: 31 Dec 88 17:30:50 GMT
References: <5066@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA
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From article <5066@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>, by amlovell@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Anthony M Lovell):
> Things that make you GLAD you own a computer:
> 
> Borland Compilers - Pascal 3 & 4 are nice.  So is TC 2.0, though I

I bought QuickC before I started reading the Net, where I hear all of the 
wondrous things about TC, but I really do like QuickC.  It works for my
applications, almost all of which run on MSDOS and UNIX SysV.
> 
> ls.exe - forget who wrote this program which is free for non-commercial

The simple things in life are best.  ls is one of them.  Thank you, whoever
you are, I tried e-mailing back to the posted author with no luck.
> 
> INTEL INBOARD386/PC - a $650 doodad that moves your 4.77MHz 8088 machine
Almost makes up for putting up with a PC, when your friends had ATs.

Battle Chess - Watch it run on the Amiga, then buy it for your PC.  I 
have to stop killing off pieces just to see the graphics.
Someone on the net asked about realistic sounds on a PC speaker?  Listen
to a bishop die.
> 
>        Bad things that make you yearn for the age of steam.
> 
vi.com - I thought it would be like ls (read: MKS for cheapskates), but
I find it impossible to use without more of the : commands, like :22, or
:.,'xs/this/that

Why does ls a: change the current drive to a:, causing a 'hang' if a:
is unformatted?  dir a: just gives the A/I/R message, ls dies.

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