Path: utzoo!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!umn-d-ub!umnd-cpe-cola!halam From: halam@umnd-cpe-cola.d.umn.edu (haseen alam) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: New MS Windows (?) Message-ID: <3476@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU> Date: 29 May 90 20:57:55 GMT Article-I.D.: umn-d-ub.3476 References: <34844@<1990May23> <71100007@p.cs.uiuc.edu> Sender: root@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU Lines: 16 In article <71100007@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes: > >Would someone please summarize the differences between Windows 3.0 and >the Mac Finder/Toolbox? I'm especially curious if Windows does >something *better* than the macintosh does. > Also, how about some technical info for programmers. Is windows totally in software? Will it support toolbox type routines that can be called from various programming languages? Correct me if I'm wrong, software emulation is always SLOWER than hardware. So windows will always be soft and mushy!!! 8-) Haseen.