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From: wct1@unix.cis.pitt.edu (William C Tom)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: windows3
Message-ID: <29692@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 19 Aug 90 06:04:42 GMT
Reply-To: wct1@unix.cis.pitt.edu (William C Tom)
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Having just bought a PC and windows 3.0, let me make a few comments
regarding the two.  If I had known about the limitations of 
Win3 and the weirdo bugs which keep cropping up, I would have just
gone and bought a Mac.  I thought that Win3 would give me the best of
both worlds:  a Mac-like GUI and all the software available to DOS.
That this is nor true becomes obvious quite quickly.  The inescapable
fact is that DOS, with all its insufficiencies, underlies Win3.
Luckily, after 2 weeks exposure, I've become accustomed to restricted
file names, bizarre file manager manipulations, frequent crashes and
screen lock-ups, and a "Terminal" program which borders on the
cretinous.

Windows 3.0 is certainly an improvement over plain-vanilla DOS, but
I'm eagerly waiting for 3.2, or 3.3, or 4.0.....