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To: Keith Hankin who wrote (18296)	3/30/1998 11:17:00 PM
From: Harvey Allen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Keith- Suprisingly I've been finding 16 bit Windows to be a pretty good platform to work with. And it's cheap. New copies of Win 3.1, 3.11 and Dos 6.22 total cost $50., Excel 4.0 and Word 2.0 $10. each. Access 2.0 was $16. and best of all, 16 bit Visual C 1.0 $8.50. I've been really pleased how well these work together and how much work I've been able to do. I've also been able to get a detached feel for that period of time when the GUI outcome was being decided. Must be the quality level was higher when there were less chefs in the kitchen. Interesting things like a tiny footprint (data/instructions<64k) program runs twice as fast as a large (multiple 64k segments). And how thing slow to a crawl when running on the Win95 32 bit versions. My DDE poke to Excel 4.0 running in Excel97 took 6 times as long. Switched to using the clipboard and now it only runs twice as long. The Win 3.1 Excel really flies. Harvey