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From: simon@hpspwr.enet.dec.com (Curiosier and curiosier...)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Another county heard from
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Date: 18 Aug 90 01:37:50 GMT
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Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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In article <94J1N6w162w@zooid.UUCP>, dve@zooid.UUCP (system operator) writes...

>If you want to simply switch between or multitask DOS applications, then you 
>should use Software Carousel or Desqview.  However, if you want to be able 
>to run programs that break all of DOS' restrictions and work in an updated 
>and powerful environment then you should buy Windows. 

I am afraid I am also the one who is missing the point.  What are "all of 
DOS' restrictions" that Windows break?  If I have Word Perfect or Lotus, 
will it run better under Windows then under DesqView?  Or is the 
"breaking" is relative only to specifically Windows written software?

>You are treating 
>Windows as a DOS shell, which it is not because it provides many features 
>that DOS does not have. 

Which?

>So I think that you have missed the entire point of 
>Windows. 

I think I do.  I still have not been able to figure out what Windows has 
vs. what other specialized programs and DesqView 386 does not.  Windows' 
accessory are next to useless comparing to PC TOOLS' DESKTOP; its File 
Manager is crippled (in comparison to PC-TOOLS or Norton Commander), it 
doesn't even have a file viewer let alone being slow;  the Terminal 
emulator that can't handle ^H, etc.

This is not degrading Windows or flaming, it is a real search for the 
answer.

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Leo Simon			simon@pwrvax.enet.dec.com

Who is not liberal when young, does not have a heart.
Who is not conservative when old, does not have a brain.

						-- W. Churchill