Subj : Re: Thanks
To   : KEN HRYNCHUK
From : William McBrine
Date : Wed Jan 28 2004 04:45 am

-=> KEN HRYNCHUK wrote to MONICA NEUFELD <=-

 KH> I know what you mean; I've also found that what used to work for me,
 KH> just doesn't any more. I used to like having all the 'bells and
 KH> whistles' in a mail reader, and now I prefer 'lean and mean' (hence, my
 KH> use of the XT version, with a pretty basic config).

I don't know if it's fair to call the XT version "lean and mean" compared
to any other. The "DOS" (i.e., 386 protected mode) version is actually
faster than the XT in most cases. It does use more memory, but not by a
lot. Otherwise, they're functionally identical, except that the XT version
can't handle data as large as the 32-bit versions can.

The purpose of the XT build was not to be "lean and mean", but simply to
run in environments where the other builds wouldn't (8088, 286, the
PocketDOS emulator, and some other weird and/or old systems). But mainly, I
did it for the heck of it. :-)

.... I'm leaving my body to science fiction.
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