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From: stephenc@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Stephen Chung)
Subject: Re: Why even use Windows x.xx?
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.154156.14810@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1991 15:41:56 GMT

In article <10960@uwm.edu> markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark William Hopkins) writes:
>
>   Maybe I missed the boat somewhere, but what is so great about windows
>anyhow?  What does it get me that I already can't get with reasonable command
>shell, a good editor and a few good UNIX-like utilities?

Well, at least to me, it is the multi-tasking (I know I know, DESQVIEW
is supposed to be much better in multi-tasking, but Windows looks a
lot better... :-> ).

Being able to look at a spreadsheet in one window, a graph in another,
while writing a report about the figures beats anything else on the
DOS command line.  And yes, I still do a lot of things with the
command line, like copying files, deleting files etc.

Last night, I was dialing in to a UNIX host to write a program.  That
program was eventually supposed to be run on the PC, and there is
a PC program that it needs to run with.  I was able to run TELIX in
one window and debug my program on the UNIX host, while checking the
results of the PC program with a DOS window to verify that they work
together well.

Just a few cents' worth.

- Stephen