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From: bdahlen@zephyr.cair.du.edu (Robert L. Dahlen - U. of Denver USA=)
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Subject: Re: GO OS vs. Microsoft Pen Windows
Keywords: go microsoft stylus notebook windows
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Date: 18 Mar 91 22:27:10 GMT
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In article <31553@mimsy.umd.edu> folta@tove.cs.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) writes:
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>Also, as far as I understand, Windows is a GUI bolted onto a basically
>non-GUI DOS, and now they are bolting a pen-based interface onto this?
>Sounds like a lot of kludging to me.
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>(I am biased here, since I believe that Windows is a rip-off of the Mac,
>quickly knocked off (until 3.0 anyhow) to preempt the better Mac GUI. Sounds
>like Pen Windows is the same thing. Again, this is my bias, and we probably
>don't want to argue this point as it really doesn't bear on the technical
>question asked.  But you did ask for our opinions :-))

Boy do I ever agree with these comments...
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