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From: sho@maxwell.physics.purdue.edu (Sho Kuwamoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Rumor -> Loss of Mac's 20% advantage over Windows 3.0
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Date: 6 Jul 90 01:14:30 GMT
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In article <1915@runxtsa.runx.oz.au> clubmac@runxtsa.runx.oz.au (Club Mac, Australia's Largest Mac Users Group) writes:
>Merging DOS into Windoze is like wrapping a cheap fibreglass shell around a
>Yugo engine, and calling it a Ferrari...

I don't mean to pick on any one poster, but I feel we should
try to keep this type of comment to a minimum.  There seem to be
*some* people here who are knowledgable about Windows 3.0, and I for
one am very curious about what capabilities it has.  I don't mean
to sound high-and-mighty, but if this turns into a flame war, it's not
going to do anyone a hell of a lot of good.

Now for some content.  I'd like to know more about the Windows
architecture from a programmer's point of view.  I liked the
discussions of the printer drivers and resource handling.  What other
capabilities does Windows 3.0 offer to the programmer?  Graphics,
presumably, are device independent.  Are there things analogous to
cdev's, or do you have to pop up a window for a TSR by hitting
ctrl-alt-hyper-meta-slash?  Is there any other non-obvious
functionality which Windows 3.0 provides?  Let me explain by example.
From where I sit, I can guess that it makes it easier to use fonts.
However, I have no idea if it makes it easier to deal with arrays of
screen objects (like the List Manager) sound, whatever.  

Does Windows require you to write your own event loop, does it use
callbacks, or does it use some sort of object oriented design?  

-Sho
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