Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!occrsh!uokmax!apple!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!ee.rochester.edu!seah From: seah@ee.rochester.edu (David Seah) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: GS?(long) Message-ID: <1990Sep11.011537.29330@ee.rochester.edu> Date: 11 Sep 90 01:15:37 GMT References: <1990Sep1.025620.7757@utstat.uucp> <1990Sep6.074237.19392@utstat.uucp> <1876@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> Reply-To: seah@ee.rochester.edu (David Seah) Distribution: na Organization: University of Rochester Department of Electrical Engineering Lines: 29 In article <1876@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> bchurch@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bob Church) writes: >In article <1990Sep6.074237.19392@utstat.uucp>, philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes: > ( in reply to ) >> >Have you seen Window's 3.0? >> >> I wouldn't have commented about it if I had not used it a lot( a lot more than >> you might imagine). What's your point? >> >Windows 3.0 seems to be one of those rare software packages that is even >better than advertised. Many of it's really good features, like allowing the >use of expanded memory, aren't mentioned all that much in the ads. It had better used expanded memory, otherwise you couldn't run anything at all! Windows 3.0 eats lots of memory. An interesting point to note would be that expanded memory is a fix for the 640K space limitation imposed by MS-DOS. I wouldn't say that Window's use of expanded memory would be a "feature" that non-MS-DOS users would be interested in (like us). I've only played with Windows 3.0 a little bit (we haven't upgraded our software to 3.0...everything runs under 2.0 blech). Windows 3.0 looks nice, though my initial impression was that they didn't have the stringent human-interface consistancy that Apple has imposed. (yay! I can post news again!) -- Dave Seah | Omnidyne Systems-M | INET: seah@ee.rochester.edu | | "User-Friendly Killing Machines" | America Online: AFC DaveS | ^..^ +-----------------------------------------------------------------+