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From: gpsteffl@sunee.waterloo.edu (Glenn Patrick Steffler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Windows 3.0, SVGA Cards, and Amiga
Message-ID: <1990Jun28.154347.12614@sunee.waterloo.edu>
Date: 28 Jun 90 15:43:47 GMT
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In article <28@sunrise.ec.usf.edu> stelmack@sunrise.UUCP (Gregory Stelmack (CS)) writes:
>As a person who installed/used MS Windows 3.0 during a co-op term, I would
>like to say that I found it difficult to use. I found very few programs that
>would run under it without extensive setups/initializations (under Windows).

What programs were these specifically.  Of the programs I have set up and
used under Win3, Excel, WinWord, and Corel Draw all have extensive setup
programs which manage the *.ini settings and fonts, etc.

On my Amiga at home, I find that many/most applications must be hand
copied, and the appropriate defines made in startup.sequence or my alias
files such that these programs even load.

>Even as a programmer, I had a lot of trouble using it, unlike Intuition,
>which is very Intuitive (sorry). Unless major changes have happened in the last
>few months, the Amiga still has an infinitely simpler interface.

Have you got the Win3.0 SDK?  Programming in windows is much simpler IMHO
than Intuition.  Printing is MUCH easier to manage, the video display is
handled automatically for you...dialogs are few mouse strokes away with
the dialog editor...the applications like SPY and HEAPWALK which watch the
windows environment for you are incredibly usefull!

I qualify my statements with the fact that I have done considerably more
programming for Windows than the Amiga.  However, I do have a good
grasp of Intuition programming anyway.

>-- Greg Stelmack
>-- Email: stelmack@sol.csee.usf.edu or stelmack@sunrise.ec.usf.edu
>-- USmail: USF Box 1510, Tampa, FL 33620-1510
>-- Amiga: the only way to compute!

Win3: The better way to compute! :-)
-- 
Co-Op Scum - U of Loo '91             "Bo doesn't know software" - George Brett

"Pins & needles, needles & pins...we pay for our sins" - Glenn Patrick Steffler
"Driving like the demon that drives our dreams" - Hardcastle & McCormick