Re: Dead or alive...

On 2001-09-21 now...@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.

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