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From: gb7@prism.gatech.EDU (Joe Bradley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Considering using Windows
Message-ID: <3288@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 10 Nov 89 11:38:22 GMT
Reply-To: gb7@prism.gatech.EDU (Joe Bradley)
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Organization: Georgia Tech Research Institute
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I'm considering using Windows for a new project I am about to undertake.
Not having ever written any software for Windows but having written
C and Assembler using Microsoft languages, I have a few questions
I hope someone can answer.

  1) I read somewhere that Windows only supports 8 colors. Is this true?
     If I have a VGA board that supports maybe 64 or 256 simultaneously
     displayable colors is there any way to access these colors through
     Windows? If not are there any workarounds? Is v3.0 going to support
     more colors?

  2) Is writing for Windows/286 quite different from Windows/386 or is
     it just a matter of recompiling for a different target environment?

  3) What's the learning curve for Windows software development for
     someone who knows MS C and Assembler well?
-- 
G.J. (Joe) Bradley, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, Georgia, 30332

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