Re: Cad Programs - some notes

I've still got the DOS version of EasyCad running on a 8088. That was in
the days when AutoCad took the fastest biggest machine and then it was
slow. EasyCad still is the most intuitive cad program I've ever
learned. I patched it together to run from one HD floppy.

I've tried to keep up with the releases but liked the FastCad 32 for dos
better than I like the windows versions because of many GPF's thanks to M$.

Ray

> Message: 15
> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 19:33:45 -0400
> From: "Doug Harrison" <prototype@...>
> Subject: Re: Cad Programs - some notes
>
> >
> > A couple of people have mentioned Easycad.
> > This was updated about a year ago to Easycad 32 and has a lot more
> > functions added. It's big brother is Fastcad 32 which is a very powerful
> > and fast program and reasonably easy to learn.
> <SNIPPITY-SNIP>
> > Some of these programs have bugs / faults that have remained unanswered
> for
> > months. Spend your money wisely.
> <MORE SNIP>
>
> I have the 16 bit version of Easycad. Not very powerful but that's why I
> like it - not a lot of unused (for most of us) commands to get lost in. It
> does have a bug that shows up under W95/98 but works perfectly in W3.1.
> Running under W95/98 you will get the message "GENERAL PROTECTION FAULT AT
> (some address)" if you don't save your work often enough. This was never
> fixed in the four years I've used the windows version.
>
> By the way, who is GENERAL PROTECTION, and why is he always getting blamed?
> Did he fix the problem in the 32 bit version?
>
> Doug