PC Processing Power (was Home Alone)

[Alexander Von_obert <avobert -at- TWH -dot- MSN -dot- SUB -dot- ORG>]

Hello Matt,


* Antwort auf eine Nachricht von soundy -at- NEXTLEVEL -dot- COM an All am 29.03.97

ss> From: Matt Ion <soundy -at- NEXTLEVEL -dot- COM>

ss> Most of my "writing" is done in that old classic, QEdit, which
ss> if
ss> necessary will run under DOS 5.0 (or maybe earlier, I never
ss> tried) on a
ss> 286.  The text can then be imported into whatever layout tool
ss> (Word,
ss> Lotus, Frame, etc.).  Why bog yourself down with all that
ss> unnecessary stuff when all you're doing is creating content?

many tasks can be done with very old, "outdated" equipment. E.g., I write this
 on a 486/40 MHz with 8 MBs of RAM and a 500 MB hard disk - even a 386
 with 2 MBs of RAM would do if no one had donated the motherboard for my BBS.
 But I added a $700 Zyxel ISDN/modem combo yesterday.

This machine delivers messages to some 300 people, not counting media like
 this mailing list. Send a message to info -at- twh -dot- msn -dot- sub -dot- org so see what it could
 do even for you :-)


Back to topic: I mostly write and most formatting is done by my partners or
 customers. Most of my work is done with Word for DOS!


Greetings from Germany,
Alexander

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