Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!daveh
From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: More Marc stuff, but this time it's an answer!
Message-ID: <14492@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 17 Sep 90 19:31:58 GMT
References: <30574@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1990Sep15.202651.8892@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1990Sep15.202651.8892@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>In article <30574@nigel.ee.udel.edu> S36666WB%ETSUACAD.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu (Brian Wright) writes:
>>Marc Barrett writes:

>>No it won't, but third party companies will.  Look at Mimitecs,
>>Firecracker/24, >DCTV, Video Toaster, and Ham-e just to name the
>>few that I know of....

>	Programmers who are writing software for business apps,
>word proc., DTP, etc. (ie non-video) will not start writing
>windowing functions, etc. on their own. 

Yet for VGA under MS-DOS, that's exactly what they do.  Well, there are some
3rd party windowing products a developer can buy, like the run-time MS Windows
package and several others, but the bottom line is, support for graphics on
the MS-DOS machines is done at the application level.  You get it at the 
OS level on the Amiga, and what everyone who's used to that wants is the same
thing, only extended to arbitrary graphics boards.  Which would be wonderful,
I agree, but it's not here just yet.  

>Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu

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