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From: frank@odetics.com (Frank Merrow)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.windows.ms
Subject: Presentation Manager and/or MS-Windows 2 or 3
Message-ID: <1990Sep26.204620.10987@odetics.com>
Date: 26 Sep 90 20:46:20 GMT
Reply-To: frank@odetics.UUCP (Frank Merrow)
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Organization: Odetics, Inc., Anaheim, CA
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Hi,

I need someone who is familiar with OS2/PM and/or MS Windows as well as
someone who is familiar with both Windows 2 as well as 3 to comment on the
following line of reasoning:

I want to start a new project using a graphical interface at home using
a "PC environment".  I have worked with Sunview before and so I am
somewhat familiar with the concepts involved, but I have no direct
experience with OS2 or MS Windows.  My understanding is that even though
both OS2/PM and MS Windows were written by Microsoft, THEY ARE MILES APART
so porting a program between the two is difficult at best.

Eventually, I would like my program to run under BOTH environments.  Because
of this it seems appropriate to do the Windows version first.  First,
Windows currently has a larger user base (and thus more customers) and
second because in the Windows environment I won't get "suckered" into
splitting my task using Multi-tasking concepts and so forth, because for
the most part they just are not available under Windows to begin with.  I
am assuming that the eventual port to OS2/PM would be easier than a
port FROM OS2/PM to Windows (given that neither is likely to be "trivial").

Once the decision is made to write the program in Windows, the next
question is Windows 2.x or Windows 3.0.  The problem with Windows 3.0
is that the customer base is (I presume) signifcantly smaller (unless
MS has made the upgrade so cheap "everyone" is upgrading).  On the other
hand if I write to 2.x, I am already "behind the times" and the
product will age faster.

Anyone care to comment?

frank@odetics