Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.misc:10549 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:8254 comp.os.msdos.misc:1667 comp.windows.misc:1937 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.windows.misc Subject: Re: Announcement from Microsoft Message-ID: Date: 4 Apr 91 22:17:39 GMT References: <1991Apr1.231547.20368@leland.Stanford.EDU> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 18 In article darwen@graphics.rent.com (Daniel Kraut) writes: > I thought that windows was a way that the ibm could use a facsimily of the > same operating system macs run on. How could you have windows for the mac, > if windows emulates the finder on a mac? Windows is sort of what you'd get if Apple could have implemented Multifinder without having to remain compatible with older Mac applications. It's still non-preemptive (which means each program is responsible for scheduling the next as you run), but it's got a better multitasker. It's still got to support MS-DOS apps, but since MS-DOS doesn't *do* anything it has to emulate the hardware in a compatibility box, so nobody expects it to do so fast. As a result, Windows 1.0 is actually sort of usable on an 8088. Neither compares well to a real operating system with a scheduler and all, of course. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"