Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucdavis!csusac!sactoh0!kk4fs!ambush From: ambush@kk4fs.UUCP (Ambush Bug) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Windows for Amiga?? Maybe!! Message-ID: Date: 8 Dec 90 08:07:20 GMT References: <90324.194527JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> Organization: KK4FS - Free Speech Forum, +1 615 283 0864 for BBS Lines: 28 RegardingKurt Tappe's post regarding Windows being ported to the Mac (and possibly the Amiga, and any other major computer.) No one who advocates such insanity could have possibly ever actually USED Windows. It's like "porting" a Geo Sprint's 3 cylinder Suzuki motor to a Corvette. Windows is a poor substitute for the Mac's Finder/Multifinder environment. Especially as it's implimented on the PC. (There's no lost love for Microsoft here, as I just spent 3 days trying to get Windows installed on My PC/XT, after spending 30 minutes installing Mac System 6.0.7 on a new classic, and most of that was spent talking to the secretary in the office the Mac was in... Only 3 of Microsoft's video drivers actually worked (CGA, EGA and mono VGA.) One Paradise driver worked, 640x480x256, talk about S-L-O-W.) Microsoft can hug a root for all I care, portability be damned. As a side not, interestingly enough, Windows was to be the environment of the Atari ST, but Microsoft didn't get it in time, and Atari went with GEM (there's a real mistake. That's like taking a skateboard instead of the Geo Spring or the Corvette...) Erik Stiegler. No Signiture file, it's allin the header anyway. Windows := a very slow 5 megabyte, multi-tasking game of Solitaire. With Fish.