My .02 on this topic. The QUIT TO was invaluable when we
were all programming on computers running on DOS. We were
working with 640K of memory. We became experts on moving
things into high memory to free up space. We all knew to
increase our FILES setting. We played around with other
RBase memory block settings (like those -z switches). This
stuff was necessary because of the limitations of the DOS
operating system.
I agree that simply running a DOS application on a Windows
machine doesn't help matters; as a matter of fact it
complicates things more than it helps things. But I really
thought that running Windows programs on a Windows operating
system meant that we didn't have to worry about that kind of
stuff anymore! As long as you're not running with 4MB of
memory, I didn't think we were supposed to be worried about
running out of memory! What happened? Who has dropped the
ball on this?
Karen
