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From: mcgredo@prism.cs.orst.edu (Don McGregor)
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Subject: Re: Mac running Windows was(Re: Will SoftPC ever emulate VGA)
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Date: 15 Mar 91 02:37:35 GMT
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>
>Truth or fiction:  Most people who bought Windows 3.0 are not currently using
>                   it because it is a slow memory pig?
>
  It would be interesting to see statistics on this.  I suspect a lot of
  those copies MicroSoft has sold are still sitting on the user's self.
  They put it on and fired up Solitare, then put it away.  
  
  I got back from a Novell training meeting on Windows today, a meeting in 
  which the corprate types were fairly well represented.  Hardly any had
  actually rolled the thing out for the users to touch yet. (And those
  that were planning on it seemed to want it for IBM terminal emulation
  and PRoFs access, uhg patooie. c'mon guys, show some vision)

  There's a huge amount of inertia in the DOS world.  Everybody's running
  DOS apps and they're not going to switch over to Windows apps very
  quickly.  There aren't even all that many Windows apps out there yet.
  Until there are, Windows is just a program launcher, and not a very
  good one at that from a cognitive science standpoint--the user has
  to make a paradigm shift from graphical-to-character-and-back when
  running DOS programs. 
 
  Apple still has a year or two long window of opportunity (so to speak)
  before Windows has matured enough to really challenge them.

Don McGregor             | "I too seek the light, so long as it tastes  
mcgredo@prism.cs.orst.edu|  great and is not too filling."