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From: ballard@cheddar.ucs.ubc.ca (Alan Ballard)
Subject: Re: Excel for OS/2
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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1991 20:08:57 GMT

In article <1991Apr6.060154.4056@unixg.ubc.ca> I wrote:
>My understanding is that the new version (3.0) is supposed to be out in a
>few months (MS said "within six months of the release of the Windows version).
>I've also heard that it *IS* a mindless/SMK/WLO port, so will perform
>even worse than 2.2. 
>I hope this is wrong. 
 
I've since been told by somebody within Microsoft that Excel 3.0 uses the 
same "layer" technique as the previous 2.x version, and that it won't be just
an SMK port.  Still no multi-threading, but it's supposed to be more responsive
than before.

The same contact at MS also suggests the release version of WLO will 
perform a lot better than the pre-release versions -- there's been further
work on Window creation and DC creation which were slow points in the 
pre-release versions.  

I remain personally skeptical about WLO as an approach to creating
high-quality PM apps. 


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