Off Topic: E-Mail Client Suggestions

In some cases you have no choice. If you want to run the current version of some Adobe applications, they come 64-bit only.

Furthermore, it is Microsoft's goal to make "64-bit" the new standard.

There is little reason not to, at this point. Well, other than it *is* M$ and they'll screw it up.

Intel made that decision. No point in holding the hardware back with an operating system that can't make full use of it.

I don't know if it will import mny files, but if you abhor Quickbooks, then you might want to look at Peachtree Accounting.

You may want to look at this, too:

Intel decided it had been dragging it's feet long enough.

And actually, AMD made the decision, and that decision effectively killed itanium and led Intel to adopt the AMD X86_64 (64-bit) processor extensions.

scott

Itanic was still-born. Intel dragged its feet until it had no other choice, other than to cede the entire market to AMD.

I wouldn't go so far as still-born. SGI, HP and others still offer Itanium based solutions. The fact that Merced was so late was the biggest early-life issue with Itanium. McKinley was the first real usable processor. I know of at least two current systems being designed around Tukwila/Poulson.

Itanium's biggest problem was EPIC - it really made the hardware and especially software designers jobs much more difficult. The PAL/SAL layers, on the other hand, were quite well designed.

Some of the Itanium technology will likely find its way into the Xeon line (the Nehalem processor, the first of many generations of server-class high-end processor, introduced QPI into the Xeon line, for example, as well as some additional RAS features).

That said, QPI is a point-to-point system interconnect like the Lightning Data Transport (aka Hypertransport(tm)) technology that AMD introduced in 2001; again, Intel learns from a competitor.

scott

In this march to the 64 bit world, makes you wonder how JPL ever managed to get the Mars rover program operational with only 8 bit technology.

Lew

It helps if you can't tell the difference between inches and meters.

One suspects that in part they accomplished that by using supercomputers to analyze what the thing had to do and boil it down to an algorithm that could fit in the limited capacity of the CPU that they chose.

Sounds kind of two bit now.

Lew

Mozilla Thunderbird...would send but not receive.

Check your settings. Check with COMCAST - they should be able to point you to a FAQ/Help Page listing the settings for Thunderbird.

I. too, was frustrated with Windows Seven and it's elimination of Outlook / Windows Mail. But found Windows Live Mail and set it up to read NetZero after a few miss-steps.

If it reads, it should write. If it reads, its likely NOT the client software but the fellow setting it up.

As to the font size in Windows Live, you may be able to change that. In other versions of Windows you could change the font size and/or change the screen resolution to make things easier on old eyes.

And then there is linux... That would solve your problem.

Maybe, maybe not. My son-in-law kept touting Linux for years. Finally I handed him my ACER laptop and asked hime to set it up for me.

He can't get the dial-up working. Soething about the software modems causes LINUX to hiccup. And, I've been told, if I ever do get the laptop modem recognized and working, I won't be able to continue using NetZero as NZ doesn't support LINUX/UNIX.

Trust me, if there was an easy way to leave Gates S*it in the dust, I'd have done so fifteen years ago.

Hell, I could like with MS-DOS 6.1

I have been through it a number of times with both Comcast and Thunderbird. Still not receiving. Comcast was no help. And from what I can find out on forums, etc, a certain percentage of the 64 W7 folks never get hooked up.

I have Live Mail. The problem with any Microsoft email product is that the format is easily corrupted and it is difficult to archive or store it. You have to move the archived message back into the program to read it.

I need someway of storing large numbers of email publications outside of the reader. And store it in a fashion that it can be easily read and sent to other locations.

That is logical. And I have tried every variation in configuring it I can. Still no luck.

I will try out Agent today. See if that works.

The problem is not resolution of font size. The problem is the pastel colors and washed out screen. The contrast available in XP just isn't there. You have the high contrast modes that washes out certain portions of almost any screen out there. Thereby eliminating important information and functions. Another problem is that many websites and software will not allow you to substitute a legible typeface. It is amazing the number of typefaces there are that can only be ready by young eyes. Talk about age discrimination.

Your problem may well be that there are no drivers for the unique hardware in a laptop. You might try a USB modem.

I'd suggest a Mcintosh, but most of Apple's software is written by Microsoft.

If it's any help, Bill Gates is no longer associated with Microsoft (aside from being a stockholder).

"Lee Michaels" wrote in news:4c6d7150$0$17901$ snipped-for-privacy@news.astraweb.com:

It's possible that my suggestion of using Eudora 7.1.0.9 got lost in my discussions with Karl.

To reiterate: Eudora stores mail in textfiles caclled *.mbx files. In this individual emails are concatenated with delimiters between, and a separate *.toc file for each mbx file contains other info that helps Eudora display individual emails. In other words, your email are perfectly readable with a text editor, but it may at first be confusing. Eudora of course displays emails just as well as any email reader. I've never had problems with backgrounds or font colors, unless the sender did something really weird, and even then Eudora easily helps you extract the text.

Attachments are divorced from each email as the email comes in, and are stored all together in a separate attachment directory. However, it is fairly easy to copy or move the attachments from the display of each individual email.

I am currently using this Eudora on XP Pro, Vista Home Basic and Win7 Pro, with no problems. As mentioned there is usenet support for Eudora in nntp://comp.mail.eudora.ms-windows