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From: jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Sheckel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ST Pad specs
Message-ID: <1021@stewart.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 91 21:30:49 GMT
Reply-To: jerry@stewart.UUCP (Jerry Sheckel)
Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA
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steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) writes:
>
>They've been working on Windows for most of a decade and still
>haven't got the technology straightened out.
>

Just because they keep improving it doesn't mean they can't straighten
out the technology.  What does that phrase mean, anyway?  Is GEM
technology "straightened out"?

>
>Just what I *don't* want in a
>Dynabook: a buggy, ugly, crash-prone user interface that runs on top of
>MessyDos and requires at least a '386 running at 20mHz to be tolerably
>fast.
>

Buggy?  And I suppose you think that GEM on the ST is beautiful, bug-free, and
ultra efficient.  Crash-prone?  I've been using Windows 3.0 since it was
released, and it hasn't crashed yet.  Requires a 20MHz 386 to be tolerably
fast?  Bullsh*t.  Ugly?  Well, that's a matter of opinion, and IMHO GEM is the
ugliest GUI of the bunch.

As far as the OS is concerned, you shouldn't feel this need to bash on MS-DOS.
After all, TOS and DOS are practically the same OS, ported to different
machines.  Just look at the major system calls for both OSes -- exactly the
same.

>
>  Steve Yelvington / P. O. Box 38 / Marine on St. Croix, MN 55047 USA
>
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