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From: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: What does the TT Buy me??
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Date: 14 Nov 89 19:33:03 GMT
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Reply-To: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
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In article <12430010@acf5.NYU.EDU> mitsolid@acf5.NYU.EDU (Thanasis Mitsolides) writes:
>I Assume you haven't heard of Microsoft windows or Desqview for the PCs.
>It takes less that $1000 of hardware to multitask DOS using a graphical
>environment and virtual memory (of sorts).
     Desqview has about the same amount of support that CP/M does. Doesn't
count.
     And Microsoft is saying that Windows 3.0 (the Wowzer-Bang Gee-Wiz Update
That Will Make Windows Really Neat And Worth Using) will break all current
Windows applications. No, I'm not making this up. Software will break.
FIXING it will be semi-trivial - but try explaining that to all the people
who purchased Windows applications expecting them to work from version to
version.
     Personally, if Microsoft really does release an incompatible version
of Windows, I think that'll kill the market. (This is also why WordPerfect
has not been doing anything about Windows, I understand; I'm told they found
out about it already and decided just to wait for Windows 3 than waste their
time on software that'll be de facto dead in six months to a year.)
                                      So very, very happy I don't own a Clone,
                                                    - R'ykandar.
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