X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,9ba64c635b2340c1 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-21 14:49:52 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: anonymous@bogus_address.con Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Dead or alive... Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 21:49:51 -0000 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: References: X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Lines: 42 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:7740 On 2001-09-21 nowhere@nowhere.co.uk said: > > Using Win-Doze to design and view ASCII art is like having an > > inflatable rubber doll as a boyfriend or girlfriend. It might > > satisfy =some= people, but it's not even CLOSE to the real thing! > >Erm, what difference does it make what OS you use? A lot! >Surely only the editor is important? No; it goes way beyond that. A graphics-mode pointee-clickee operating system isolates the user from the machine's default 80 x 25 text-mode characters. The characters you see on a Win-Doze screen -- and in a Win- Doze-based editor -- bear little relation to true ASCII. They're prettied-up, graphically-generated 'pictures' of char- acters; not real bare-metal ASCII. What I'm saying is that the creation and viewing of true, =classic= ASCII art requires access to the machine's default 80 x 25 text mode characters. You can't get that in Win-Doze. Mikro$loth and Win-Doze are the 'fast food' of the computer industry. They bear about as much relation to real computing as McDonald's does to a real restaurant. If you're satisfied with a meal of Chikken McNuggets, French fries and a Coke, fine; you can go to McDonald's. But if you want a meal of real oven-roasted chicken, a genuine baked potato, and a vintage-dated varietal wine, you don't go to McDonald's...because they don't serve that. The choice, of course, is yours.