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From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: New MS Windows (?)
Message-ID: <4347@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 30 May 90 10:43:26 GMT
References: <34844@<1990May23> <71100007@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <3476@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU>
Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
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In-reply-to: halam@umnd-cpe-cola.d.umn.edu (haseen alam)

In article <3476@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU>, halam@umnd-cpe-cola (haseen alam) writes:
>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-)

Last time I looked, the Mac Toolbox was software... :-)

(not counting whatever tricks the IIfx might pull, which I know
nothing about).

I agree that MS Windows stinks, though.
I'm now a happy new owner of an SE/30. I will be sure to show it to
anybody who thinks that windowing PCs are cool.

>Haseen.

		Nick.
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