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From: clm@unislc.uucp (Clair Mills)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Is Write for Windows 3.0 for real?
Message-ID: <1991Jan11.215503.28769@unislc.uucp>
Date: 11 Jan 91 21:55:03 GMT
References: <1991Jan9.142200.16771@athena.mit.edu>
Organization: Unisys, SLC Utah
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From article <1991Jan9.142200.16771@athena.mit.edu>, by acook@athena.mit.edu (Andrew R Cook):
> All emotional outbursts aside, I think Windows Write and Paint started out 
> as a Microsoft attempt to duplicate MACwrite and MACpaint that came free with
> the original Macintosh.  Microsoft either gave up, got disgusted, bored, or
> had to meet a release deadline, thus never got around to giving the windows
> versions of these programs half the quality or functionality of the original
> MAC applications.
Thank goodness Microsoft DIDN'T give us the quality/functionality of the original MAC apps. Have you forgotten that the original MACwrite could only handle docs that were two pages long before running out of memory and bombing?? Or that if you tried to save a MACpaint file to a floppy without enough room on it, you'd lose it?? 

Now THAT'S quality! :-b

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