Subject: Re: Latest version of ETen

From: Carlos McEvilly <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1992 14:48:16 EST

I don't know about ETen distributors on the East Coast, but do have the
answer to your other question.  ETen version 3.0 came out this week for
new purchasers (the upgrade version will be out after the Chinese new
year holiday, in a week or so).  The newest version before this was 2.2.
The only new features of 3.0 that the sales people I talked to at ETen
knew about are 1) compatibility with QEMM and 2) it takes up 0 bytes of
low memory if loaded high under MS-DOS 5.0.

For what it's worth:
ETen was probably surprised this fall by the quick introduction of a
competitor's product, KuoChiao 6.0, which also has these features as
well as a much lower price (NT$1000, or about US$40.)  The KC system has
a nice "Beijing" (read: Pinyin) input method.  It also seems to have
some problems, though; it wouldn't install at all on one machine I
tried, a standard 386-33DX with VGA and plenty of memory; it gave me
messages to the effect of "insert disk 2 in drive A:" when disk 2 was
in fact already in drive A: (this was using original, write-protected
installation diskettes that had worked in a monochrome 486 machine and
a monochrome 286 machine).

- Carlos McEvilly  [email-masked]